For all Interested
High School Students

Session 1:
June 26 - July 7, 2006 -

Session 2:
July 10 - July 21, 2006

Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

Friday, June 30, 2006

``Error-correcting Codes"

with

Martin Strauss (Math and Comp Sci, UM)

Error-correcting codes are extremely important in modern computer science, in particular for use in protecting data privacy (i.e., your credit card number online!). A famous earlier encrypting and decrypting devise is shown below, the Enigma cipher machine used by the German military in World War II. The decryption of the Enigma codes was one of the first successes of modern mathematical cryptography and computer science.

Professor Martin Strauss's research interests include topics in theoretical computer science: algorithms for massive data sets, computer security and complexity theory. Ask him what all that means! That is why you came to MMSS! 

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