Error-Correcting Codes, by Professor Peterson, was originally published in 1961. Now, with E. J. Weldon, Jr., as his coauthor, Professor Peterson has extensively rewritten his material. The book contains essentially all of the material of the first edition; however, the authors state that because there has been so much new work published in error-correcting codes, the preparation of this second edition proved to be a much greater task than writing the original book. The major additions are the chapters on majority-logic codes, synchronization, and convolutional codes. Much new material has also been added to the chapters on important linear block codes and cyclic codes. The authors cite some highly regarded books on recent work done in Eastern Europe and an extensive bibliography on coding theory in the Soviet Union [sic]. In its much-expanded form, Error-Correcting Codes may be considered another valuable contribution to computer coding.
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A long time ago I had this text for an extraordinarily difficult course in error correcting codes. As an introductory text I found this one too difficult. An engineer more skilled in the art that I talked to liked it. While I have trouble rating this item , I can accurately say that it is not a good choice for beginners in the field. It may be good for the advanced user. A rating is required for posting so I will give it a 4 based on others opinions. I had a better start with Lin/Costello's book.1/7/2007
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Basic and Complete Text for 1970-era Error Correcting Codes,
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Appendix C Table C.2 (Irreducible Polynomials of Degree <35 over Galois Field(2)) makes this book worth the price. Suddenly, instant (and maybe obscure) scramblers and random-number generators up to 2^35-1 length (10 seconds at 3.3GHz). Suddenly, that XILINX(tm) scrambler for degree = 12 that they've been giving away for many years can be checked, and you see it's not really maximal-length!
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Bible of the field,
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It is must read. Mathematically very deep
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Several major developments have contributed to the rapid emergence of the field of error-correcting codes over the past two decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
synch gain, synch recovery, cyclic product codes, decoder for this code, synch loss, encoding constraint length, orthogonal check sums, linear switching circuits, successive nonzero terms, syndrome generator, decoding constraint length, echelon canonical form, linear tree codes, whose first block, minimum weight element, comma freedom, highest degree occurring, syndrome register, extended cyclic codes, shortened cyclic code, incorrect subsets, recurrent codes, syndrome digits, nonzero code words, nonsystematic code Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Final report by Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Activities of the Nugan Hand Group in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Concatenated Codes (Research Monograph) by G. David Forney on page 139, and Back Matter
- Projective geometry, by Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young. (Michigan Historical Reprint) by Oswald Veblen on page 329, and Back Matter
- Advances in Computers, Vol. 40 by Marvin Zelkowitz Ph.D. MS BS. in Back Matter
- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project in Back Matter
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