Harmonic Analysis in the News

• Wavelets on your power lines
  "... the final IEEE 1901 standard will include only two PHYs (FFT and Wavelet)"
  [Reuters 10/19/2009]


• Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents
  "... With the aid of high-frequency radar that tracks the speed and direction of the flowing waters, and computers that rapidly perform millions of calculations, the scientists found that a hidden skeleton guided whether floating debris lingered or exited the bay...."
  [NY Times 09/28/2009]


• Moonwalk Gets a Makeover
  "Forty years after the fact, some of the most historic moments of Apollo 11's televised moonwalk have been brought into sharper focus using computerized image processing techniques..."
  [MSNBC 07/16/2009]


• Uncovering ancient secrets beneath the surface
  "Scholars are reconsidering what ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes knew of the concept of infinity, and archaeologists may have found a fossil brain millions of years old, thanks to new ways of looking beneath the surface of ancient objects. Using modern X-ray and spectral imaging, researchers are uncovering two ancient manuscripts by Archimedes..."
  [AP Wire via NBC 02/15/2009]