AM 381CIntroduction to Information Theory
- Offered
- Fall, Spring
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1993–94
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1993–94; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Variable length coding. The Shannon entropy as a measure of uncertainty and expected information. Minimal average length coding; the Shannon entropy as lower bound. Source entropy. Channels. Transinformation. Capacity. Applications to problem solving, information transmission, logics, science, linguistics and communications (TV, music, etc.). Determination of practical measures of information. Formerly AM 380A
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1993–94 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Cross-listed as PMATH 380A
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1989–90 to 1993–94, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1989–90 to 1993–94 5 calendars
Variable length coding. The Shannon entropy as a measure of uncertainty and expected information. Minimal average length coding; the Shannon entropy as lower bound. Source entropy. Channels. Transinformation. Capacity. Applications to problem solving, information transmission, logics, science, linguistics and communications (TV, music, etc.). Determination of practical measures of information.
Formerly AM 380A
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Cross-listed as PMATH 380A
Offered Fall, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.