Viterbi's contribution

Rune Allnor wrote:
>>
>>I think you missed the punch line there Rune - read the last sentence 
>>again. ;-)
>>
>>(Of course young 'uns may never have heard of cps ;-)).
> 
> 
> I saw it, all right. 
> 

My bad - If I had read more carefully before posting I would have 
realised this.

Regards,

Paul

Jim Thomas wrote:

> Paul Russell wrote:
> 
>>I think you missed the punch line there Rune - read the last sentence
>>again. ;-)
>>
>>(Of course young 'uns may never have heard of cps ;-)).
> 
> 
> And speaking of punch-lines, for those who haven't heard of cps, I have
> assembled a handy-dandy conversion chart:
> 
> http://leesburg.bittware.com/hz2cps.html
> 

This is also quite a straightforward operation on a slide rule, if you 
don't happen to have the conversion chart handy. ;-)

Paul

Steve Underwood wrote:
> 
> The less neat something really is, is the more it needs a good name.
> 
> When someone says "how does your error handling work" do you really want
> to say "the receiver gropes around in the dark, trying endless
> possibilities, until it stumbles on its best guess at the actual
> transmitted data". Isn't "we use Viterbi techniques to evaluate the
> maximum likelihood sequence" better? Better still "we use Viterbi
> techniques to evaulate the MLS" avoids a phrase that still sounds like
> vague guessing.
> 
> Regards
> Steve
> 
> Peter Brackett wrote:
> >
> > OTOH... any literature search will uncover the many unique contributions of
> > Andrew Viterbi to communications sciences!  It's just that the only one
> > named
> > for him is not that important and was not even discovered or invented by
> > him!

I don't know about the last improvement. Whenever I see "MLS", I think
"PMS". I don't know why.

Jerry
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:03:16 -0700, kbc wrote:
> Troll  and hence ignoring.
> 
> Looks like you have some problem.

You don't know Jerry too well...

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:32:02 -0400, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:

>Steve Underwood wrote:
>> 
>> The less neat something really is, is the more it needs a good name.
>> 
>> When someone says "how does your error handling work" do you really want
>> to say "the receiver gropes around in the dark, trying endless
>> possibilities, until it stumbles on its best guess at the actual
>> transmitted data". Isn't "we use Viterbi techniques to evaluate the
>> maximum likelihood sequence" better? Better still "we use Viterbi
>> techniques to evaulate the MLS" avoids a phrase that still sounds like
>> vague guessing.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Steve
>
>I don't know about the last improvement. Whenever I see "MLS", I think
>"PMS". I don't know why.
>
>Jerry

I sometimes think of realtors.


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Matthew Donadio <m.p.donadio@ieee.org> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.08.12.01.24.33.980099@ieee.org>...
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:03:16 -0700, kbc wrote:
> > Troll  and hence ignoring.
> > 
> > Looks like you have some problem.
> 
> You don't know Jerry too well...
> 


True.  But he does not know me well either.

If he tries so hard to read between lines and does a  very poor job at it,
i will not have a good opinion about him.

Do i look like an idiot to think that ieee conducts an yearly auction
to give away these designations ??

Peter Brackett <ab4bc@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> What is Viterbi's claim to fame - only the Viterbi algorithm ?
>>
>> Has  he invented any  other theorem or circuit or algorithm ?
> 
> Andrew Viterbi has made many original contributions to communications
> technology.
[...]
> 
> The so-called "Viterbi Algorithm" which is a maximum likelihood sequence
> estimation
> algorthim is nothing more nor less than an "exhaustive search" of all
> possible lattice
> paths seeking the one with the maximum likelihood!  Not very subtle!
> Exhaustive
> search is the "dumbest" of all possible optimization methods.  This
> technique of
> "exhaustive search" of all possible solutions until the optimum is found is
> often called
> "dynamic programming".  The so-called Viterbi Algorithm is nothing more nor
> less
> than the "dynamic programming" or "exhaustive search" algorithm.
[...]

Hi,

I'm currently suffering under it's complexity of O(T*N^2) (T=length of
observation/state sequece, N=number of states in HMM).

Does anybody know of good heuristics when working with a left-right-HMM (so
called "Bakis-HMM")?
-- 
Michael
  Weitzel

> The example with Einstein is a bad one since the Nobel prize has an
> advancement of technology requirement which is much more appropriate to
his
> explanation of the photoelectric effect, which is by the way what he won
the
> Nobel prize for. While Lorentz and Poincare did a lot for the math behind
> relativity, Einstein took it much furthur than anyone else at the time and
> thusly did a lot of original work. But there was no application to
> technology (then) so there was no prize. So I wouldn't say he got the
prize
> for a lessor work, but rather for a more applicable to the rules of the
> prize committee work.

In fact, the photoelectric effect work was a direct precursor to quantum
mechanics. So although it isn't what Einstein is most famous for,
I don't think it is less important in any way.

Y(J)S

> > For the unit of frequency, it would have been better to honor Steinmetz,
> > the proponent of AC power distribution (Edison championed DC). Then we
> > could have used his initials and achieved continuity. His full name, of
> > course, was Charles Proteus Steinmetz.

That's a great one!

However, the real champion of AC when Edison was out pushing DC
was Nikola Tesla. And all he ever got was an infrequently used
unit of magnetic field, and his initials were blasphemed with a non-Unix
server operating system.

Y(J)S

"Jonathan Y Stein" <author@dspcsp.com> wrote in message
news:bhb4su$590$1@news2.netvision.net.il...
>
> However, the real champion of AC when Edison was out pushing DC
> was Nikola Tesla. And all he ever got was an infrequently used
> unit of magnetic field, and his initials were blasphemed with a non-Unix
> server operating system.

Jonathan,
I don't know about the OS, but the unit, tesla, is hardly infrequently used!
When one first encounters magnetic flux density in first year physics, he
learns this unit. I know that I assign many problems that use teslas. A
common equivalent is webers per square meter. Some old schoolers may use
gauss for field strength, but the standard unit for field strength is tesla.
(1 tesla = 10000 gauss). A gauss is convenient when describing the Earth's
field near the surface. The density there is about 1/2 gauss.

E-Mag used to be taught using gaussian units, but the paradigm is to now use
rationalized MKSA units, so the tesla has become the natural one.

Clay

p.s.   Trivia question??? What is the only (known to someone with one or two
year's worth of physics/ e-mag)  unit named for an American (non-immigrant)
scientist?


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