You pick up one of your audio CDs and notice a scratch on the surface -
but then it plays perfectly. You make a telephone call to Australia and
get a perfectly clear line, free of all the clicks and static that used
to be there. You book your holiday on-line giving your credit
card number safe in the knowledge that the airline's website is secure
from intruders or send sensitive business information electronically
that can't be intercepted. The codes that make all these possible will
be discussed at a workshop titled "Codes and Cryptography" at UCC on 22
and 23 May 2006.
The 2-day workshop will bring together speakers and participants from
the US, France, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium and the UK as well
as Ireland to discuss their latest research on how to make information
storage and transmission more reliable and more secure. The workshop
will divide its work between theoretical studies carried out by
mathematicians, and practical implementations in microelectronic
circuits designed by electrical and electronic engineers.
According to Co-Director of the Boole Centre, Professor Patrick
Fitzpatrick: "Codes are essential to modern communications and
information storage. The public demands high fidelity audio and DVD,
telephone and TV signals, and a high level of security in electronic
business transactions. Our codes form the basis for doing that."
The workshop takes place in UCC's Kane Building and is hosted by The
Boole Centre for Research in Informatics (BCRI), the School of
Mathematical Sciences and the Departments of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering and Microelectronic Engineering, UCC. There is no
registration fee. If you would like to attend please contact:
Niamh Power, BCRI, Tel. 021 4903697 or n.power@bcri.ucc.ie
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