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In its early years, information theory was dominated by research on error-correcting codes: How do you encode information so as to guarantee its faithful transmission, even in the presence of the corrupting influences engineers call "noise"? Recently, one of the most intriguing developments in information theory has been a different kind of coding, called network coding, in which the question is how to encode information in order to maximize the capacity of a network as a whole. For information theorists, it was natural to ask how these two types of coding might be combined: If you want to both minimize error and maximize capacity, which kind of coding do you apply where, and when do you do the decoding?

A small minority of today’s university students don’t use email and others are confused by the array of technologies available at universities. Yet many students couldn’t bear to be without their mobile phones and find themselves distracted by social networking sites during study. 

The "experts" are at it again and I feel that it's my duty to set 'em straight.

Web-based software dashboard helps facility managers assess the potential impact of settings changes or daylight harvesting applications.

Thousands of UK websites are expected to be in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors.

Google suffers its first patent defeat since taking over Motorola Mobility in a battle over how Android handles texts.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. - Seymour Papert

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. - Dave Parnas