published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 521 55374 1 hardback Contents Preface page xi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The discrete communication channel 2 1.2 The history of data-transmission codes 4 1.3 Applications 6 1.4 Elementary concepts 7 1.5 Elementary codes 14 Problems 17

We study the problem of risk sharing within a household or syndicate. A household shares risky prospects using a social welfare function. We characterize the social welfare functions such that the household is collectively less risk averse than each member, and satisfies the Pareto principle and an independence axiom. We single out the sum of certainty equivalents as the unique member of this f...

Applications in middle and last mile networks (the " edge ") that make use of local storage, network caches, and datacenter storage must consider availability, durability , performance, cost, and consistency requirements in their design. We present Syndicate, a wide-area read/write file store that addresses these concerns. To illustrate them, suppose a physicist PI and her collaborators host ex...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a leading cause of death globally [1]. Antibiotics remain key and necessary intervention for people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) particularly as recurrent increasingly multidrug-resistant respiratory infections dominate morbidity mortality [2]. Therefore, there an urgent unmet need the development new antimicrobials to manage in CF. To this end, CF Trust (CFT) p...

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