6.441 Course announcement

Prereq: 6.041
Time: TuTh 11:00-12:30pm
Location: 32-124
3-0-9 H-Level Grad Credit
Homepage: http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~madhu/ST06/

Transmission of Information

This course teaches the theory behind the transmission of information. Rough collection of topics includes:

Entropy and Information: Definitions, variations of the notions, their properties.
Source Coding: Estimating the amount of information produced by a source and compressing this information. Introduces the Asymptotic Equipartion Property (AEP, an extension of the law of large numbers).
Channel Coding: Models of noisy channels. Coding theorem and its converse. Joint source-channel coding.
Network Information Theory.
Applications of Information Theory to other domains: Stock Markets, Gambling etc.

See course homepage http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~madhu/ST06/ for more details. Most of the material for the course is covered in Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas. Also see http://web.mit.edu/6.441/www/ for information on previous offerings of this course.

Instructor: Madhu Sudan

TA: Chung Chan