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Course Catalog 2013-2014

MAT-63006 Information Theory, 7 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
Excercises


 


 
 18 h/per
 2 h/week
+31 h/per
+2 h/week


 
MAT-63006 2013-01 Wednesday 17 - 19, TD 308
Monday 15 - 19, TD 308
Wednesday 15 - 19, TD308
Thursday 15 - 19, TD308
Monday 15 - 19, TD308
Tuesday 17 - 19, TD308
Wednesday 17 - 19, $lesson.place

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.     

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Introduction to Coding and Information Theory.   Roman, S.       Springer-Verlag (-96).   Yes    English  
Other literature   research article/ classroom handout material           Yes    Suomi  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
MAT-63006 Information Theory, 7 cr MAT-51216 Information Theory, 4 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
MAT-63006 2013-01       Contact teaching: 0 %
Distance learning: 0 %
Self-directed learning: 0 %  

Last modified16.01.2013