Technical studies of paintings are based on many analytical techniques that complement art historical studies. Understanding the processes that happen with the aging of the paint is very important for conservators. The paint layer cracks and lifts, the materials discolor and new layers are added over time, slowly changing the appearance of the artwork. Crack...
A data string can be represented with the help of context-free grammar such that the string is the unique string belonging to the language of the grammar. One can then losslessly compress the string indirectly by encoding the grammar into a unique binary codeword. This approach to data compression, called grammar-based data compression, can also be employed ...
This drawing was a blueprint for a small quilt that was added to the mathematics/art installation Mathemalchemy (about which more information can be found at mathemalchemy.org).
It is well-known that nondegenerate quantum error correcting codes (QECCs) are constrained by a quantum version of the Hamming bound. Whether degenerate codes also obey such a bound, however, remains a long-standing question with practical implications for the efficacy of QECCs. We employ a combination of previously derived bounds on QECCs to demonstrate tha...
Few technologies have been as transformative as quickly as the mobile Internet, characterized by the global 4G and 5G cellular networks, as well as pervasive WiFi. Few engineering disciplines have benefited as much from strong theoretical underpinnings as has the wireless communications field, whose origins in and continuing partnership with information theo...
