ECE 529Communication of Information
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1970–71
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1967–68 to 1970–71; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Information measure in discrete signals; redundancy and entropy. Markov models for message sources, encoding and code transformation. Digital channels, mutual information, block codes and error correction; channel capacity. Applications to digital computer and communication systems. Prerequisite: EE 428 or equivatent. 2 lectures, 2 hours seminar, one term.
As printed in the 1970–71 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1967–68 to 1970–71, 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.
1970–71 1 calendar
Information measure in discrete signals; redundancy and entropy. Markov models for message sources, encoding and code transformation. Digital channels, mutual information, block codes and error correction; channel capacity. Applications to digital computer and communication systems. Prerequisite: EE 428 or equivatent. 2 lectures, 2 hours seminar, one term.
1967–68 to 1969–70 3 calendars
The nature and transfer of information. Redundancy, entropy and information theory concepts. Conversion and coding of information: Applications to telemetry. Treatment of errors, noise, and interference. Interfacing of computers and communication links. Computational and communication capacity of systems. Representation of computer programs, sampled data.
3 lectures, one term.
Prerequisite: EE 21, EE 26.