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 ...

An error correction method that intersperses three check bits at the end of each four data bits. At the receiving station, the check bits are used to detect and ...