Dr. Olaf Manz worked as a research assistant and Heisenberg professor at the mathematical institutes of the universities of Mainz and Heidelberg. He then worked for many years at Siemens in IT product management and also knows data processing from the practical side. He is the author of the books "Fehlerkorrigierende Codes" and "Verschlüsseln, Signieren, Angreifen" published by Springer.

Data transmission and storage.- Digitization.- Overview of data compression methods.- Entropy coding.- Dictionary coding.- Quantization.