Full Course Title
Information Theory
Abbreviated Course Title
INFORMATION THEORY
Instructor Name(s)
Van Dam
Course Description
Entropy, mutual information, and Shannon's coding theorems; lossless source coding, Huffman, Shannon-Fano-Elias, and arithmetic codes; Channel capacity; rate-distortion theory, and lossy source coding; source-channel coding; algorithmic complexity and information; applications of information theory in various fields.
Units Fixed
4
Maximum number of times course can be repeated for additional credit
99
Maximum Units
99
Prerequisites
Advisory Enrollment Comments
Same course as ECE 205.