Introduces modulated codes (MC) for intersymbol interference (ISI) mitigation. Reviews current ISI mitigation techniques, details basic concepts related to MC, and describes the combination of an MC and an ISI channel. Compares the coding of an MC and ISI channel to that of an uncoded Additive White Gaussian Noise channel, and considers the case of joint maximum-likelihood sequence estimation encoding and decoding. Illustrates situations of suboptimal MC design, considers multiple transmit and multiple receive antenna systems, and details a channel-independent MC-coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system. The author teaches in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)