Course Catalog 2010-2011
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Course Catalog 2010-2011

MAT-51216 Information Theory, 4 cr

Person responsible

Stephane Foldes

Requirements

Final exam plus classroom activity, particulars to be announced during first lecture.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Strings and codes. Unique decipherability of variable length codes. Kraft's inequality. The Kraft-McMillan theorems. Huffman encoding. Entropy. Transmission rate and error correction rate of fixed length codes.     
2. COURSE NOT GIVEN IN 2009-2010     

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Introduction to Coding and Information Theory.   Roman, S.       Springer-Verlag (-96).      English  
Other literature   research article/ classroom handout material              Suomi  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
MAT-51216 Information Theory, 4 cr 73121 Information Theory, 2 cu  

Additional information

In 2010-2011: periods 3-4
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Last modified24.11.2010