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Course Catalog 2010-2011
MAT-51216 Information Theory, 4 cr |
Person responsible
Stephane Foldes
Lessons
| Study type | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | Summer | Implementations | Lecture times and places |
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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 |
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
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Additional information
In 2010-2011: periods 3-4
Suitable for postgraduate studies
More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| First lecture Monday January 10, 2011, hrs 14-16 TB220 |