For my second term of honours linear algebra, I wrote a paper on JPEG image compression. I was only supposed to write it about DCT and quantization, but reading about the steps involved in JPEG encoding, I found out that some JPEGs are encoded using Huffman encoding as a final step, and I figured I should include that in my paper out of respect for my genes. I even used a scan of an image of me and Uncle David together to compare images with Huffman compression and without.
I realize that I probably got a lot of technical things wrong in this paper, but in my defence, I'm a physics major, not a comp sci major, and I stayed up until 4 in the morning the night before handing it in to finish it. Regardless, after handing it in, my professor responded with an e-mail that read "Congratulations on your project. It is very good." and I think it's the reason I got an A in that class despite nearly failing the midterm.
Posted by Cathy at May 8, 2008 02:34 PM