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Even something as mundane as error correction coding were developed at NASA, for communicating with spacecraft - technology that's now present in e.g. CD/DVDs,
by noselasd 12y ago
Even something as mundane as error correction coding were developed at NASA, for communicating with spacecraft - technology that's now present in e.g. CD/DVDs, and every mobile communication system.
Now, if they hadn't developed it, someone else probably would, but perhaps not at that time - leaving us at years behind where we currently are with e.g. the speeds on our mobile devices.
- btoptical 12y agoError Correction Coding is hardly mundane and in modern communication systems far from trivial. There is a lot more to ECC than Reed-Solomon. Basically nothing in our digital world today would work very long without it. You think of it as mundane only because it just works.
- kens 12y agoI think the credit for error correcting codes goes to Hamming in 1950.