| Winter 2003 Homework |
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| Past Homework |
Due Date |
HW to HAND IN |
Comments |
Points |
| 11-18 through 12-6-02 |
Baton Project Functional Components outlined. | Work as assigned. Continue to make notes in your Excel Lab notebook. Files copied to Mr. R as attachments. | |
| 12-9-02 | Flash Alpha Presentation previewed; engineering schematic mouse-over finished. |
Baton Components Milestone 1: > All power and I/O design worksheet documentations finished. Copies of all updated Excel design notebooks emailed to Rummel and cc to rest of class. > Joey: Power spreadsheet updated. Include SD device reader and USB. > Luke: Are all of the I/O specs documented? > Arish: Spec page in Flash worked on. |
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| 12-10 through 12-13-02 |
Chapter 5 VAB's finished | Work as assigned on the Baton Project. Continue to make notes in your Excel Lab notebook. | |
| 12-16 through 12-20-02 |
Baton Project presentation | CAD, Photoshop, Flash,
and vector modeling as assigned.
Baton Components Milestone 2 on Friday, 12-20-02 |
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1-6-03 M through 1-16-03 F |
Chapter 6 Read this week |
Reading of Chapter 6. Baton work as assigned. Baton Components Milestone 3 on Friday, 1-17-03 |
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| 1-21 through 1-31 | Baton Project Components modeled. |
Baton work as assigned. Baton Components & Presentation Milestone 4 on Friday, 1-31-03 |
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2-3 through 2-7 |
Baton Flash Beta |
Baton Flash Presentation Milestone 5 on
Friday, 2-7-03 > Flash Beta done |
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| 2-10 through 2-13 | Baton Flash Gamma |
Final tweaks on Baton Presentation Made All Baton Project work will be worth 90% of Winter Trimester grade |
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| 2-18 through 2-28 | Baton Research Paper | Using the guidelines from the Thayer School of Engineering, type a research paper or create a multimedia presentation based on some aspect of the Baton Project. All topics must be approved by the instructor. | |
| 2-28 F | Baton Research Paper Due |
Email report as an attachment to Mr. R End of Winter Trimester on 3-3-03. |
10% Winter Grade |
| 3-3 M |
Telecom- munications Outline |
Gilbert & Tobin's Telecommunications Systems - An Introductory Guide needs to be printed out and brought to class in a folder. | R |
| 3-4 through 3-7 F | Ch. 7 Communications | Read Ch. 7 this week while we do the "Air Modem" VAB's | R |
| 3-10 M | Ch. 7 Outline | Read and know the concepts in the Chapter 7 outline. | R |
| 3-11 T | No Class-
Take the Digital Transmission Online Lecture |
CS 105 The Web: Technologies and Techniques is an online Williams College Computer Science Course that overlaps with much of this chapter. Please review all of the Chapter 3 Digital Transmission pages: | Quiz on 3-13 H |
| 3-12 W | Dr. Geoffrey Orsak from SMU visits our class | Study for Chapter 7 quiz up through outline step 7.5.2 "Binary Data Streams" | X |
| 3-13 H | Ch. 7 Outline Quiz |
Know outline steps 7.1 through 7.5.2 Know how the Air Modem works |
50 pts |
| 3-14 F | Wireless Project Outlined | Spring Senior Project "Wireless Networks" Brainstorming session | R |
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Spring Break from 3-15 till 3-23. Enjoy! |
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| 3-24 M | None | ||
| 3-25 T |
Ch. 8.1 Exercises p. 8, 9 |
Exercises 8.1 > Draw diagrams
and use geometry to figure out topology lengths. |
25 pts |
| 3-26 W | Ch. 8.2 Exercises #1-4 | Email or do on paper. Show all work. | 20 pts |
| 3-27 H | Take online tour after reading Ch. 8.3 | Do
Web tour of Routers
to answer
the vocab below: > router, hub, LAN, Ethernet (100 base-T), protocol, switch, data packet, firewall, IP header, logical vs. physical addresses, MAC address, TCP/IP |
12 pts |
| 3-28 F | Ch. 8.3 Exercises | Email or do on paper. Show all work. | 20 pts |
| 3-31 M | Boosting Signal Density online tutorials @ Williams College |
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Pop Quiz Possible! |
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| 4-1 T | Test Review for Chap. 8 | Know all of the objectives. | |
| 4-2 W | Chapter 8 Test | 100 pts | |
| 4-3 H | Read Ch. 9.1 | Ch. 9 Compression Introduced | |
| 4-4 F | Read Ch
9.2 & 9.3
Bring colored candy package to class |
Huffman coding Lab on candy package contents done as excel spreadsheet | 50 pts |
| 4-7 M | Read Ch 9.4 | Do Exercise 9.2 as HW. Ex. 9.1 done in class. Huffman coding Lab spreadsheet finished for real-life data. | R |
| 4-8 T | Read Ch. 9.5 | none | 50 pts |
| 4-9 W | Exercises 9.3 & 9.4 done | Email using standard Lab headings to Mr. Rummel. Also include in the main body of the email a paragraph on how the Huffman Tree entropy compression technique is used in generating MP3's from uncompressed CD audio. | 20 pts |
| 4-10 H | Outline wavelet compression methods | Email to Mr. R. You'll be using these websites to create a 1 page outline on a wavelet compression standard or an application that uses wavelets. | 50 pts |
| 4-11 F | Web Tour of Information Theory |
Please use
these websites to gain an
understanding of these concepts as laid out by Claude Shannon's Information
theory: > information > measuring information content > entropy > channel capacity > noise Please email these definitions in the body of the email to Mr. R |
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| 4-14 M | Exercise 11.2 Exercise 11.3 |
Read Ch. 11: first 18 pages on
Encryption. HW works with rotational encoders.
Visit this encryption intro website.
You will need to print out the six characteristics of an Ideal Cipher. |
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| 4-15 T | PGP encryption |
1) Install PGP and create public keys; post to servers > You may get the freeware program from Mr. R for home use or upload via your UCC station. > Install the PGP at home if you wish; you can get the CD from Mr. R > You can export your private key to your home computer and set up your key ring there also. This will be helpful later on. 2) You will be sent a substitution cipher in an email to solve. |
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| 4-16 W | PGP Questions emailed to Mr. R |
1. What is Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) and how is
it used for securing email? How does this public key system work?
Give a
brief outline. |
20 pts |
| 4-17 H | Steganography ("Stego") |
Web Tour of
Stego Sites. Send these written
answers in an email: 1) Define the
practice of steganography |
30 pts |
| 4-18 F | No Class; Good Friday Break | ||
| 4-21 M | Crypto puzzle via email |
A. Cipher: MR OO RO EP TS
ND EH EE DR EE
B. Please read over this site: Affine Resistant Digital Audio Watermarking Using Template Matching.
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| 4-22 T | Read Ch 9.4 | Do Exercise 9.2 as HW. Ex. 9.1 done in class | |
| 4-23 W | Steganography Paper read |
Please download, print, and read the
.pdf of the academic paper that laid the groundwork for steganography in
information theory. > There are 9 pages from the 5/98 IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. > Be able to identify what a "warden" is > This is not light reading; skim it first and mark it up looking for key items mentioned in the abstract. > Be able to ask questions and participate in a general discussion of the limits of steganography based on Shannon's theorem. |
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| 4-24-03 H | Take Home Chapter 11 Encryption Test |
1. Follow
email
header instructions for the test. 2. Send the test back before Friday, 4-25-03 @ 1:30 pm as both an attachment AND as a PGP 7.0 encrypted email message using my public key posted on the MIT server. > You may get the freeware program from Mr. R for home use or upload via your UCC station. 3. The test is open note, open web, and open reference, but closed to peer discussion. |
100 pts |
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4-25 through 5-14-03 |
Senior Final Exam: Conceptual "Road Rally" Challenge |
With a total of seven stopping points or puzzles
on this overview, class members must work as teams to solve the riddles
and problems they encounter.
Each clue builds on the last until the final destination is revealed. Each challenge must be solved before getting the next "location" of the next puzzle. These puzzles can exist in the analog or digital realms. IF all seven challenges are not solved by the teams, then the final password to get out of the written final exam will not be gained and the team is obliged to finish solo with paper and pencil what they could not achieve as a team. |
10% of final grade |
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