Hamming, "Fiber Optics" (May 12, 1995)
Channel: securitylectures
Date: 2012-08-09

Intro: One of the reasons for taking up the topic of fiber optics is its significant history occurred within my scientific lifetime, and I can therefore give you a report of how the topic looked to me at the time it was occurring. Thus it provides an illustration of the style I adopted when facing a newly developing field of great potential importance. The field of fiber optics is also, of course, important in its own right. Finally, it is a topic you will have to deal with as it further evolves during your lifetime.



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.