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HISTORY OF THIS SITE

Overview

This page required hundreds of hours to design and implement. It has a unique structure marked by the ease of navigation. The site is also easily expandable.

As of 2005 April 25, the statistics of the site are:

  • Total items: 353
  • Total size: 3.623 MB
  • Total on disk: 9.2 MB
  • Total development time: 227 hrs

Version History (reverse chronological order)

1.69 (April 25, 2005) Items: 353; Size: 3.623 MB; On disk: 9.2 MB; DT: 4 hrs
Projects added. ICA software package posted. The entire site uploaded.

1.68 (April 24, 2005) Items: 348; Size: 3.250 MB; On disk: 9.1 MB; DT: 4 hrs
Many improvements to all pages.

1.64-7 (April 24, 2000) Items: 348; Size: 3.200 MB; On disk: 9.0 MB; DT: 30 hrs
Updating What's New and other pages. Removed the ebook on architecture due to the publisher's time limit. A gap of several years in the maintenance of this site.

1.63 (April 10, 2000) Items: 358; Size: 5.962 MB; On disk: 11.4 MB; DT: 6 hrs
Links: font sizes fixed for both IE 5.0 and Netscape 4.x. Many improvements in all other pages. The entire site uploaded again.
1.62 (April 9, 2000) Items: 362; Size: 5.990 MB; On disk: 11.6 MB; DT: 18 hrs
Modifications to the entire site. Develop new Links suitable for the IEEE Canada Winnipeg Section Site. Reload the entire site.
1.60-61 (November 11, 1999) Items: 358; Size: 5.958 MB; On disk: 12.0 MB; DT: 12 hrs
Add vol. 1.07 into New Systems in What's New. Many additional modifications in this area.
1.58-59 (October 31, 1999) Items: 357; Size: 5.918 MB; On disk: 11.4 MB; DT: 12 hrs
Move Links from my IEEE site, and modify all cross-references. The Links directory has 116 items, 564 KB in size, and occupies 2.8 MB on disk. The links have been developed over a number of years.
1.57 (October 28, 1999) Items: 243; Size: 5.373 MB; On disk: 8.6 MB; DT: 5 hrs
Change the directory naming convention in New Systems, Add vol. 1.06 into What's New.
1.56 (October 22, 1999) Items: 240; Size: 5.335 MB; On disk: 8.5 MB; DT: 2 hrs
Change the structure and the headings in New Systems, Add vol. 1.05 into What's New.
1.55 (October 15, 1999) Items: 232; Size: 5.238 MB; On disk: 8.4 MB; DT: 5 hrs
Add New Systems, vol. 1.04 into What's New.

1.54 (October 11, 1999) Items: 227; Size: 5.04 MB; On disk: 8.2 MB; DT: 1 hrs
Corrections uploaded. Testing in IE.

1.53 (October 11, 1999) Items: 227; Size: 5.04 MB; On disk: 8.2 MB; DT: 4 hrs
Corrections. Fix sizing of What's New in Internet Explorer that is different from Netscape Communicator.
1.52 (September 28 to October 10, 1999) Items: 228; Size: 5.0 MB; On disk: 8.2 MB; DT: 19 hrs
Development of Smart Cards tutorial and vol 1.3 New Systems.
1.51 (September 27, 1999) Items: 213; Size: 4.9 MB; On disk: 7.9 MB; DT: 6 hrs
Improvements and expansion to Service.
1.50 (September 23-26, 1999) Items: 213; Size: 4.8 MB; On disk: 7.9 MB; DT: 9 hrs
Improvements to Personal. Addition of Service.

1.49 (September 23, 1999) Items: 203; Size: 4.8 MB; On disk: 7.6 MB; DT: 2 hrs
The site has been uploaded. Research, teaching & service must still be added.

1.46-8 (September 18-23, 1999) Items: 200; Size: 4.5 MB; On disk: 7.4 MB; DT: 10 hrs
Many improvements to the entire site. Decision to keep ONE What's New location, serving all my courses.
1.45 (September 17, 1999) Items: 187; Size: 4.4 MB; On disk: 6.9 MB; DT: 3 hrs
Add UofM Fort Garry map and links to the campus site. improve the other maps.
1.44 (September 16, 1999) Items: 185; Size: 4.3 MB; On disk: 6.8 MB; DT: 3 hrs
Add Winnipeg maps and description. Modify the home page.
1.43 (September 15, 1999) Items: 159; Size: 4.0 MB; On disk: 6.0 MB; DT: 5 hrs
Expand the Great Wave description. Add lower levels of What's New: Events, Systems, and Articles.
1.42 (September 14, 1999) Items: 138; Size: 3.2 MB; On disk: 4.9 MB; DT: 7 hrs
Adding top levels of Research, Teaching, Service, What's New. Expanding Links and About.
1.41 (September 13, 1999) Items: 125; Size: 3.1 MB; On disk: 4.7 MB; DT: 6 hrs
Adding eBooks.
1.40 (September 12, 1999) Items: 93; Size: 338 KB; On disk: 1.7 MB; DT: 8 hrs
Redesign of About.
1.00 to 1.39 (September 10, 1999) DT: 24 hrs
Fundamental design and gradual development of the core structure, based on the experience from the design of several other sites.
1.00 (September 1, 1999) Development Time (DT): 40 hrs
Fist embodiment of the site.

0.90 (August 1, 1999)
Extensive study of personal page designs of some of the individuals I had known, including:

Bill W. Armstrong, John W. Bandler, Vijay K Bhargava, Martin Cohn, Ed Della Torre, Simon Haykin, Waguih Ishak, Xuan Kong, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Khalid Sayood, Jim Storer, Bruno Preiss, Edward R. Vrscay, Ian Witten, Lotfi Zadeh, Steven W. Zucker

I have looked at personal sites of other individuals, including:

Mark Nelson, Beny Neta, Rob Scharein, Julien C. Sprott

I have also studied pages of some information researchers, including:

Elwyn Berlekamp, Robert Calderbank, G. David Forney, Jr., Thomas Kailath, John Kieffer, David J.C. MacKay, Neri Merhav, Neil J. A. Sloane, Sergio Verdu, Aaron D. Wyner

0.10 (August 1, 1998)
Realization that I can no longer avoid building this site.

0.01 (August 1, 1996)
An idea of this site formed, together with several other sites.


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