Error Correcting Codes: Combinatorics, Algorithms and Applications

This is the webpage for the book form of the lectures notes for the course CSE 545, Error Correcting Codes: Combinatorics, Algorithms and Applications.

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The plan is to put up the whole book sometime in Spring 2012.

Chapters

Below are links to the individual chapters:

Chapter 1: The Fundamental Question. (Feb 9, 2012)
Chapter 2: A Look at Some Nicely Behaved Codes: Linear Codes. (Feb 19, 2012)
Chapter 3: Probability as Fancy Counting and the q-ary Entropy Function. (Feb 19, 2012)
Chapter 4: What Can and Cannot Be Done-I (Feb 19, 2012)

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Acknowledgment

The material in this webpage is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under CAREER grant CCF-0844796. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).