FYSM 145 - Understanding the Digital World of Zeros and Ones

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Trinity College

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From the research laboratory to the living room, digital technologies are pervasive, affecting our society and everyone's daily life in diverse aspects. In short, "digital" represents an encoding scheme that can symbolize almost any type of information (numbers, words, music, and video, etc.) by decomposing it into basic pieces and converting each piece into binary units (bits) of zeros and ones, which can be efficiently stored, transmitted, and processed by computers. Digital technology enables the full range of holdings in our museums, libraries, and archives to be stored in complicate patterns using just zeros and ones. It allows the contents to be catalogued, organized, and made accessible to audiences as never before, and it also seriously alters the traditional distribution of information protected by copyrights. The advancement of the theory and practice of management in a digital, networked economy highlight digital technologies and their implications for business and personal life. This Seminar course provides a basic understanding of the digital world of zeros and ones. Students will gain hands-on experience of encoding multimedia signals through laboratory experiments. The course will also bring to the attention of issues encompassing all aspects of digital technology, including the adaptability of users, changes in information distribution, global networking, and protection of intellectual property rights. Professor Taikang Ning obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and joined Trinity in 1986. His teaching and research interests include digital signal and image processing, custom designed programmable chips, and real-time embedded systems. 1.00 units, Seminar

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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