Tag Archives: Systems Seminar

Ang Lecture

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
On Monday (10/3), Ang Peng Hwa, Dean of the School of Communication and Information at NTU, will be giving a talk entitled “The UN Working Group on Internet Governance: An Insider’s Perspective.” (Yes, a practice run for his keynote at IR 6.0, I’m sure.) The talk is at 2pm in 545 O’Brian. I would encourage […]
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Can. Assn. for Info. Sci. CFP

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
The annual conference for the Canadian Association for Information Science is June 1-3 at York University (Toronto). 500 word proposals are due no later than January 26, 2006. Full call for papers below.
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Cancelled Office Hours

By alex | Published: 9/26/2005
Just a quick note that this week I will not be in my office during normal office hours, as I am participating in a workshop. Meant to note this in class, but the week snuck up on me. Always happy to chat via phone, or catch me in the hall sometime on Wednesday.
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Binary Encoding

By alex | Published: 9/25/2005
On Wednesday, I prematurely aborted the discussion of coding. I’ve gotten a couple of emails on this now, the one most recent from Richard. To remind you, we had a four-symbol code, consisting of H, A, L, and _. If these symbols were equally distributed, we the number of bits required is 2. We know […]
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