Codes, Curves, and Signals

Part I: Curves and Codes. 1. On (or in) the Blahut Footprint; T. Høholdt. 2. The Klein Quartic, the Fano Plane, and Curves Representing Designs; R. Pellikaan. 3. Improved Hermitian-like Codes over GF(4); G.-L. Feng, T.R.N. Rao. 4. The BM Algorithm and the BMS Algorithm; S. Sakata. 5. Lee Weights of Z/4Z Codes from Elliptic Curves; J.F. Voloch, J.L. Walker. 6. Curves, Codes, and Cryptography; I.F. Blake. Part II: Codes and Signals. 7. Transforms and Groups; G.D. Forney, Jr. 8. Spherical Codes Generated from Self-Dual Association Schemes; T. Ericson. 9. Codes and Ciphers: Fourier and Blahut; J.L. Massey. 10. Bounds on Constrained Codes in One and Two Dimensions; J. Justesen. 11. Classification of Certain Tail-Biting Generators for the Binary Golay Code; A.R. Calderbank, et al. 12. On the Weight Distribution of Some Turbo-Like Codes; D.J. Costello, Jr., J. He. Part III: Signals and Information. 13. Alternating Minimization Algorithms: From Blahut-Arimoto to Expectation-Maximization; J.A. O'Sullivan. 14. Information-Theoretic Reflections on PCM Voiceband Modems; G. Ungerboeck. 15. Some Wireless Networking Problems with a Theoretical Conscience; A. Ephremides. 16. Bounds on the Efficiency of Two-Stage Group Testing; T. Berger, J.W. Mandell. 17. Computational Imaging; D.C. Munson, Jr.