A Collection of Contributions in Honour of Jack Van Lint

Foreword. Publications of J.H. van Lint. Local Search in Coding Theory. Cyclic Affine Planes and Paley Difference Sets. On the Reed-Muller Codes. A Note on Binary Cyclic Codes of Blocklength 63. List Decoding. Locally K 3,3 or Petersen Graphs. Note on the Structure of Semiovals in Finite Projective Planes. On Some New Simple Perfect Squared Squares. Structure and Uniqueness of the (81,20,1,6) Strongly Regular Graph. Some 2-Ranks. An Observation on Certain Point-Line Configurations in Classical Planes. Penrose Patterns are Almost Entirely Determined by Two Points. Covering Machines. Almost All Quasigroups Have Rank 2. The Dimension of Projective Geometry Codes. Subplane Covered Nets and Semipartial Geometries. On the Number of Fixed Point Free Elements in a Permutation Group. Generalized Hexagons of Even Order. On the Covering Radius of Reed-Muller Codes. A New Authentication Scheme Based on Latin Squares. Extension Operations for Cuts. Binomial Coefficient Codes over GF(2). Some VLSI Decompositions of the de Bruijn Graph. On Spherical Codes Generating the Kissing Number in Dimensions 8 and 24. Weight Distributions for a Certain Class of Codes and Maximal Curves. Probability, Information Theory, and Prime Number Theory. Translation Nets: A Survey. Local Indecomposability of Certain Geometric Graphs. New Spherical 4-Designs. Projective Codes Meeting the Griesmer Bound. Searching with Lies: the Ulam Problem. On Simple Combinatorial Optimization Problems. On Lengthening of Covering Codes. Kerdock Codes and Related Planes. Some Fascinating Integer Sequences. Support Weight Distribution of Linear Codes. On Block Designs with Repeated Blocks. On the Inverse Fermat Equation. On Perfect Arithmetic Codes. Linear Codes with Complementary Duals. Fault-Detection in Networks. Completely Regular Codes. Orthogonal Arrays and Other Combinatorial Aspects in the Theory of Uniform Point Distributions in Unit Cubes. On Decoding by Error Location and Dependent Sets of Error Positions. Incidence Structures Applied to Cryptography. More on the Uniqueness of the Golay Codes. A Recursive Method for Construction of Designs. Some Aspects of the Information Theoretic Dialogue. Circuits in Graphs Embedded on the Torus. A Note on Path-Zero Graphs. The [18,9,6] Code is Unique. Is Taylor's Graph Geometric? Complete k -arcs in PG(n,q), q Even. On the Cardinality of Sets of Sequences with Given Maximum Correlation. Fire Codes Revisited. On the Weight Enumerator of Product Codes. Some Small Non-Embeddable Designs. On Kirkman Triple Systems of Order 33. Efficient Circuits for Multiplying in GF(2 m ) for Certain Values of m .