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From: ERTEM@ACC.FAU.EDU
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: Create sci.compression?
Keywords: VIDEO HDTV
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.161231.16798@cs.fau.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 16:12:31 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.004336.26106@rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
   [stuff deleted...]
>Data compression is meaningless outside of a computer context; it is
>arguably as much a part of computer science as compiler writing or
>microprocessor design.  
   [...stuff deleted]

I disagree. How about video compression. A major part of any digital HDTV
system has to be the compression scheme. Two of the reasons to do compression
are:
     - To save on storage  (computer side)
     - To save on bandwidth (non computer side)

Actually I don't care what the group is called. However, digital communications
is not part of computer science. I also have doubts about microprocessor design
being only a CS area too.

M. C. Ertem
Electrical Engineering Dept.  <---- Where else would you expect anyway?
Florida Atlantic University