Correction is not possible with one parity bit since any bit error in any position creates exactly the same information as bad parity. If more bits are integrated ...

In this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat looks back at how one man's frustration at losing time led to one of the great breakthroughs in information theory. Telecommunications ...

You may not know the name [Richard Hamming], but you definitely use some of his work. While working for Bell Labs, he developed Hamming codes — the parent of a class of codes that detect, and ...