FEC (forward-error-correction) techniques correct errors at the receiver end of digital communications systems. In contrast with error-detection and retransmission ...

Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and un-seriousness of today's elites, drawing historical parallels to past eras of corruption that preceded ...

All lectures can be attended virtually via Zoom; students use the chat function to submit questions. All lectures are recorded and available for students to watch upon request (instructions on viewing ...

Abstract: We apply the innovations method to Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes. First, we calculate the covariance matrix of the innovation (i.e., the soft-decision input to the main decoder in ...

Abstract: In 6G broadcasting, there is an urgent need of a high-performance short-length channel code for hyper-reliable and low-latency communications (HRLLC). Among the available options, cyclic ...

(Image: Bertrand Russell and W.M. Newton, Editor, BBC Talks Department.) The inaugural Reith Lecture was given on 26 December 1948 by Bertrand Russell. In a series of 6 talks Russell spoke on the ...

Not for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – repression and fantasy, libido and death drive, disavowal and displacement – to understand the ...

Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures will reflect on moments in history, including the likes of the suffragette and abolitionist movements, which have sparked transformative moral revolutions, offering hope ...

Professor Robert Oppenheimer explains how human communities resemble atoms in the final Reith Lecture from his series 'Science and the Common Understanding'. Show more This year's Reith Lecturer is ...

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