This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Remember that news-making ENCODE study with ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

In data transmission, Manchester encoding is a form of digital encoding in which a data bit's state -- 0 or 1 -- is represented by the transition from one voltage (V) level to another. This approach ...

An encoding method that converts binary data into ASCII text and vice versa and is one of the methods used by MIME. This method is good for text that contains an occasional 8-bit character. The 7-bit ...

The demo begins by displaying the source data file. Next, the demo scans through the sex, region, and political leaning columns and constructs a Dictionary object for each of those columns. Then the ...

Welcome to the first installment of our Superguide series, one that starts right at the center of online video technology—encoding and transcoding. So what’s all ...