Antonia J. Jones

Lecture Notes

The following lecture notes and Mathematica notebook files are intended for Computer Science Students.

Analytic Maths

• Lecture notes (pdf file).
• Numbers (a review) (pdf file).
• Lab-1 notes (pdf file)
• Extreme.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• FinFields.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Lab-1.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Maxmin1.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Maxmin2.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Mixedpd.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Pops.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Primes.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• QuestionsAndSolutions.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Sequences-1.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Sets.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Rots3D.nb (mathematica notebook file - How to do rotations in 3D).
• Exam&Solutions01.pdf
• Exam&Solutions02.pdf
• Exam&Solutions03.pdf

Automata Theory

• Lecture notes (pdf file).

Data/Computer Security

• Lecture notes (pdf file). (I think I have fixed the font problem in printing.)
• Questions & answers (pdf file).
• Exam solutions '99 (pdf file).
• Lab-1 notes (pdf file)
• Bounds.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Euclid.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Extham.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• FindGoodBinCd.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• FinFields.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• FreqAnalysis.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• FREQS.ASC (data file)
• Hamming.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Hill.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Lab-1.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• LinCodes.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Primes.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Pubkey.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Shamir.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Exam&Solutions01.pdf
• Exam&Solutions02.pdf
• Exam&Solutions06.pdf

Links of interest

• An interesting video on Computer security in the casinos at Vegas can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episodes/en/20060223coderoom3/thecoderoom3_300.asx 
• In the context of secure storage for corporate data see http://www.thebunker.net/
• What is a coding theorist: the true story of Alice and Bob.
• Demonstration of RS en-/decoding in DVD players by Tom Hoeholdt
• Error detecting and error correcting codes - article by R.W. Hamming
• Obituary for Claude Shannon in the New York Times
• An obituary for Marcel J.E. Golay by Jim Massey
• A Golay Encoder/Decoder
• On Reed-Solomon Codes
• An Introduction to Error-Correcting Codes
• Coding Theory: the first fifty years by Richard Pinch
• Lower Bounds for A(n,d) : size of largest binary code of length n and minimum distance d
• Bounds on the minimum distance of linear codes
• A link to the webpages of some coding theorists
• Magma - a computational algebra system for algebra, number theory and geometry

Other things you might want to know about

Tor: some security from oversight for your Internet transactions.

• Article - (about Tor) when they came a visiting!
• Design of Tor
• Download Tor

Firefox: an open source web browser with a better track record than some.

• Download Firefox
• Tor button for Firefox

Evolutionary Computation

• Lecture notes (pdf file).
• Lab-1 notes (pdf file)
• Assign-1.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Assign-2.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• AssignNew.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Axelrod.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Backprop.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• DataGen.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• GA_Inversion.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• GA_Simple.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Hop1.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Hop2.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Intro.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Neuron.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• Outer.nb (mathematica notebook file).
• PATWTS35 (mathematica data file).
• PROB5 (mathematica data file).
• WEIGHTS (mathematica data file).
• Wisard.nb (mathematica notebook file)
• Exam&Solutions03-04.pdf

Specials...

• BritishAssociationScience.pdf
• SelfReplicatingInterStellarAutomata.pdf

Group Project

Suggested project on Hopfield Networks

Suggested Systems Design Project: Mapflows