Bjork explains television (1): “Transcoder architectures for video coding,” Niklas Bjork [pictured here] and Charilaos Christopoulos, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 44, no. 1 (1998): 88-98. The authors, at Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, Sweden, explain: “This paper discusses the problem of transcoding H.263-based video streams. Two different models for transcoding are examined, rate reduction […]
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Scientists speak up: “On the immortality of television sets”
By weird tradition, scientists use dull, obscure language when they criticize other scientists. Six scientists chose to stray outside that tradition. In a new paper, they criticize the people who did “The ENCODE Project: ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements”. They pull few, if any, punches. Thanks to Rolf (“pull no punches”) Zwaan for bringing this to our attention: […]
George Putnam’s “Perversion for Profit”
GEORGE PUTNAM (all caps, because that’s the way he said everything), Los Angeles Television/Radio Legend, has died at the age of 94…. Best known on the Web as the “outstanding news reporter” who narrated the ’50s alarmist documentary “Perversion for Profit“, he was also acknowledged as the model for the Mary Tyler Moore show’s bombastic […]