Information and Entropy
6.050J · Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering · Undergraduate · Spring 2008
Prof. Paul Penfield, Prof. Seth Lloyd
This course explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the physical nature of information and information processing. Topics include: information and computation, digital signals, codes and compression, applications such as biological representations of information, logic circuits, computer architectures, and algorithmic information, noise, probability, error correction, reversible and irreversible operations, physics of computation, and quantum computati…
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