What's New and Exciting in Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory?

Nowadays, a popular opinion is that "Coding is dead". But it is not. Please see the following keynote speech of ISIT 2006, from Prof. Vardy.

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What's New and Exciting in Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory?

Slides and handouts are now available.

Alexander Vardy
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California at San Diego

We will survey the field of algebraic and combinatorial coding theory, in an attempt to answer the question in the title. In particular, we shall revisit classical problems that are yet unsolved, review promising advances in the past decade, elaborate upon recent connections to other areas, and speculate what may lie ahead for the field.

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