Hamming, "Simulation, Part III" (May 11, 1995)
Channel: securitylectures
Date: 26/08/2012

Intro: I will continue the general trend of the last chapter, but center on the old expression "garbage in - garbage out." Often abbreviated GIGO. The idea is if you ill-determined numbers and equations (garbage) in then you can only get ill-determined number and equations out. By implication the converse is tacitly assumed, if what goes in is accurate than what comes out must be accurate. I shall show both of these assumptions can be false. Because many simulations still involve differential equations we begin by considering the simplest first order differential equations of the form.



The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" was the capstone course by Dr. Richard W. Hamming (1915-1998) for graduate students at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey California. 

This course is intended to instill a "style of thinking" that will enhance one's ability to function as a problem solver of complex technical issues. With respect, students sometimes called the course "Hamming on Hamming" because he relates many research collaborations, discoveries, inventions and achievements of his own. This collection of stories and carefully distilled insights relates how those discoveries came about. Most importantly, these presentations provide objective analysis about the thought processes and reasoning that took place as Dr. Hamming, his associates and other major thinkers, in computer science and electronics, progressed through the grand challenges of science and engineering in the twentieth century.