The Soul of Engineering
"Control - The Hidden Technology"

From the negative feedback amplifier to flight control systems, Swedish engineer
Karl Astrom explores the history and impact of automatic control.

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Dilbert and Wearable Computers
"Wearable Computer Architecture and Applications"

Even cartoon characters such as Dilbert have discovered the world of wearable computers. Professor Daniel P. Siewiorek talks about the influential work being done in Carnegie Mellon University's Wearable Group.

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Cracking the Challenge
"The Cipher"

Thousands of amateur and professional codebreakers across the world tackled Simon Singh's Cipher Challenge, but only one team came away with the $15,000 prize. Singh offers a behind-the-scenes peek at his seven-part challenge.

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History in the Breaking
"Cracking Codes and Stealing Secrets"

Breaking codes can make or break historical figures. Best-selling author Simon Singh explains how in a special presentation for youth.

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Breaking the Enigma
"Group Theory and the Enigma"

John Lawrence brings one of the famed German coding machines, the Enigma, to Urbana. He also explains how a Polish mathematician cracked this "unbreakable" World War II code.

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Solving the Quantitative Quandry
"A More Functional Approach to Performance Analysis"

To gain insights into today's computers, it's going to take more than reams of data. It's going to take deeper analysis and plenty of creativity, says former CSL professor Edward S. Davidson.

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Computers: Is That Your Final Answer?
Edward S. Davidson answers the million-dollar question: What makes you think you are interested in computers?

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Daniel P. Siewiorek
of Carnegie Mellon University speaks during the Spring Lecture Series.