Perfect communication with imperfect chips

Friday, August 5, 2011 - 03:00 in Physics & Chemistry

One of the triumphs of the information age is the idea of error-correcting codes, which ensure that data carried by electromagnetic signals — traveling through the air, or through cables or optical fibers — can be reconstructed flawlessly at the receiving end, even when they’ve been corrupted by electrical interference or other sources of what engineers call “noise.”

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