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Course Catalog 2012-2013

MAT-51216 Information Theory, 4 cr

Additional information

Periods 3-4
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Stephane Foldes

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures

 

 
 17 h/week
+18 h/week

 
MAT-51216 2012-01 Thursday 15 - 16, TD308
Wednesday 15 - 19, TD308
Monday 17 - 19, TD308
Friday 15 - 17, TD308
Tuesday 15 - 16, TD308
Thursday 16 - 18, TB214

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  
MAT-51216 Information Theory, 4 cr MAT-63006 Information Theory, 7 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
MAT-51216 2012-01        

Last modified31.07.2013