Developed from a working group and workshop held at Rutgers U. in March 2004, these articles examine interconnections amongst coding theory, theoretical computer science, information theory and related areas of computer science and mathematics. The articles focus on the challenges of the next 50 years, particularly those in wireless communications, magnetic or optical storage, signal processing in networks, network information theory and the creation of a quantum information theory. Specific topics include modulation coding for a two-dimensional optical storage channel, characterization of heat-assisted magnetic recording channels, Cramer-Rao bound for timing recovery on channels with inter-symbol interference, the faithful communication of genetic information, an information theoretic approach to data storage and processing in cells, coding for optical communications, and macro-molecular data storage with such features as highly parallel read and write operations and three-dimensional storage capacity. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
