The Difficulty of Designing an Error-Correcting Code

Your job is to design a code that can fix its own errors. Could you do it?

MIT News announced "New Frontier in Error-Correcting Codes: Coding scheme for interactive communication is the first to near optimality on three classical measures." What, exactly, is an error-correcting code?

Error-correcting codes are one of the glories of the information age: They're what guarantee the flawless transmission of digital information over the airwaves or through copper wire, even in the presence of the...