Engineering manager Erica Gomez, program manager Jerome Holman, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates explain how a computer's hardware and software work together.
The origin of letters. Created by Brit Cruise.
The co-founder of the Internet Vint Cerf and software engineer Paola Mejia take us through the ins and outs of how networks talk to each other.
Finally we arrive at our quantitative measure of entropy. Created by Brit Cruise.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates gives a quick overview of the entire How Computers Work series.
Introduction to Channel Capacity & Message Space. Created by Brit Cruise.
How can we quantify/measure an information source? Created by Brit Cruise.
Electric Telegraphs and developments leading to Morse Code. Created by Brit Cruise.
Introduction to Markov chains. Created by Brit Cruise.
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Spotify engineer Lynn Root and Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet, explain how information on the Internet is broken down into packets, and how to ensure that information is reliably received.
Learn what it means when a binary number has a 1 in the 1's place or a 1 in every single place. Created by Pamela Fox.
Claude Shannon's idea of perfect secrecy: no amount of computational power can help improve your ability to break the one-time pad. Created by Brit Cruise.
Brit introduces the polyalphabetic cipher, which creates a lighter fingerprint than the Caesar cipher. Created by Brit Cruise.
How can a machine tell us if a number is prime? Created by Brit Cruise.
An attempt at an optimal trial division primality test using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. Created by Brit Cruise.
Random vs. Pseudorandom Number Generators. Created by Brit Cruise.
Why do we need public key cryptography? Created by Brit Cruise.
Introduction to why we would need RSA. Created by Brit Cruise.
Setting up a trapdoor one-way function. Created by Brit Cruise.