Erasure coding has emerged as a pivotal technique in distributed storage systems, offering a robust approach to data resilience and cost-efficient storage. By partitioning data into fragments and ...

Google Research has just published a research paper detailing a new algorithm that proposes a new way to answer queries. If in the future this algorithm is put into place it will further change the ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...