User:Barkercoder/sandbox/R H Barker

R H Barker R H Barker (Dr Ronald Hugh Barker 1915 - 2015) Phd, Bsc, FIEE, Finst P, Ceng, FIMechE Most notable as inventor of Barker Code or Barker Sequences. This is the backbone to virtually all data transmissions in our world today. Gifted scientist and committed IEEE member for 40 years, Roy Barker (as he was known), died just before what would have been his 100th birthday. His ground-breaking work on synchronizing digital communication systems in the 1950s are a means of checking the synchronization and framing of received data. This work, so prevalent in our lives today, goes back to Barker’s PhD. "The servo problem involved in the transmission of angular data by pulse code modulation". 1954 Faculty of Science London University. Virtual all data transmissions (including Wikipedia) require the use of a Barker code for its correct transmission to the receiving computer. A sequence of binary digits has very little meaning unless the significance of the individual digits is known.

Personal Details
Born in Dublin his early years were disrupted by his father's frequent periods of unemployment and moves between Dublin and Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire.