Aug 25, 2009

Information and Entropy

The Morse telegraph.

Course Highlights
This course features an updated version of the course text, and a large collection of online and print resources for each unit.
Course Description
This course explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the physical nature of information and information processing. Topics include: information and computation, digital signals, codes and compression, applications such as biological representations of information, logic circuits, computer architectures, and algorithmic information, noise, probability, error correction, reversible and irreversible operations, physics of computation, and quantum computation. The concept of entropy applied to channel capacity and to the second law of thermodynamics.

Download Details Click Here

Related Posts:

  • A Networks for Learning: Regression and Classification Course Highlights During this course we will examine applications of several learning techniques in areas such as computer vision, computer graphics, database search and time-series analysis and prediction. Supervised lear… Read More
  • Multicore Programming Primer The course serves as an introductory course in parallel programming. It will have a series of lectures on parallel programming concepts as well as a group project providing hands-on experience with parallel programming. The … Read More
  • Introduction to C++ This course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in science, social science and engineering programs who need to learn fundamental programming skills quickly but not in great depth. The course is ideal for und… Read More
  • Introduction to Software Engineering in Java This image shows how some Flickr users are linked in social networks. Assignment 7 asks you to model certain aspects of a simple social network. (Original image courtesy of GustavoG on Flickr.) The course s… Read More
  • Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge A brain with language samples. (Image courtesy of MIT OCW.) Course HighlightsThis course site features detailed lecture slides, along with other material used by students in the c… Read More

0 comments:

Text Widget

Copyright © 2025 Vinay's Blog | Powered by Blogger

Design by | Blogger Theme by