User:Barkercoder
Male aged 74 living on the South Coast of England. Using Wiki is completely new to me and a big learning curve as I have had no training in computer science. I am learning by reading the instructions that are not very user friendly. Perhaps there is a reason for this. R H Barker
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R H Barker (Dr Ronald Hugh Barker 1915 - 2015) PhD, BSc, FIEE, FinstP, Ceng, FIMechE. Who's Who[1] Most notable as inventor of Barker Code or Barker Sequence, a means of checking the synchronization and framing of received data. This is the backbone to virtually all data transmissions within (and out of) our world today. 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 == Roy Barker (as he was known) was a gifted scientist and committed member of The Institute of Engineering and Technology for over 60 years. Born in Dublin his early education years were disrupted by his father's frequent periods of unemployment and moves between Dublin and England. His father Ernest William Barker born 1880 in Harpenden (1881 census) found it difficult to find work as a stained glass window artist and traveled to do so leaving his family to live with his mother's parents in Thomas Street, Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire for much of the time. The family were extremely poor and matters weren't helped when his father dies in 1927. At age 13 Barker joined Cedars Upper School, Leighton Buzzard until 1934. It was here that Barker took an interest in things electrical and radio, building his first crystal set and three valve radios making some of the electrical components. Barker excelled at mathematics and won a scholarship to University College Hull where he gained a 1st class honours degree in physics awarded by London University.
1954 Faculty of Science London University.