Reed-Solomon algebraic decoding procedures can correct errors and erasures. An erasure occurs when the position of an erred symbol is known. A decoder can correct up to t errors or up to 2t erasures.

Amsterdam Library of Object Images - ALOI is a color image collection of one-thousand small objects, recorded for scientific purposes. In order to capture the sensory variation in object recordings, ...

It should not be so much funded as held sacred. The fact that we count it as an expense or that we have to run it like a business is a disgrace." – David Conrad, writing on the occasion of Jack ...

We introduce the heat method for solving the single- or multiple-source shortest path problem on both flat and curved domains. A key insight is that distance computation can be split into two stages: ...

The POSIX thread libraries are a standards based thread API for C/C++. It allows one to spawn a new concurrent process flow. It is most effective on multi-processor or multi-core systems where the ...

This webpage is a benchmark data set for keystroke dynamics. It is a supplement to the paper "Comparing Anomaly-Detection Algorithms for Keystroke Dynamics," by Kevin Killourhy and Roy Maxion, ...

Students should also have some basic mathematical background, such as the ability to do a proof by mathematical induction, in order to reason about program correctness. In addition, it will be very ...

Fundamental axioms of quantum mechanics Fun with a few qubits: quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno, Elitzur--Vaidman bomb, entanglement, teleportation, no-cloning Bell's inequality and the CHSH game Fun with ...

Each word has three coordinate values: age, gender, and royalty. We call these lists of numbers vectors. Since they represent the values of semantic features, we can also call them feature vectors.

This course gives an introduction to probability as it is used in computer science theory and practice, drawing on applications and current research developments as motivation and context. TEXTBOOK ...

By the mid-1960s, Scientology was a religion under siege. In the U.S., the Church had been raided by the F.D.A. In England, Scientology was being investigated by Parliament and St. Hill students lived ...

The Fight Over the OT Materials Scientology price list reveal true cost of the Fishman documents. The Ninth Circuit Court's 1994 order remanding the decision on whether to seal the Fishman declaration ...