SYDE 558Information-Theoretic System Analysis
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1990–91
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1990–91; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP), Jaynes’ formalism, applications to thermo-dynamics, derivation of some common probability distributions on the basis of MEP. Spectral analysis and state estimation. The intent of the course is to spell out a systems methodology for probabilistic systems from an information-theoretic point of view. 16:155
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1990–91 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
One post or comment in 1 thread mentions SYDE 558, November 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2015
To All Upper Year CS students, what 400 level CS course is interesting and useful and why? 8 points, 16 comments
u/blisse: “I have to choose an elective myself, so this will help me probably more than it helps you :p Here's my one liner summary of them (hopefully correct). …”
u/blisse: “I've taken 458 and 449-ish (dropped). I would like to take 442, 444, 485, 486, and 488. I'm taking 452 next term, and probably one more of the above, maybe also SYDE558 or ECE457B. The rest are interesting, but don't sound as interesting to me as the ones I listed.”
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1989–90 to 1990–91, 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 1990–91 2 calendars
Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP), Jaynes’ formalism, applications to thermo-dynamics, derivation of some common probability distributions on the basis of MEP. Spectral analysis and state estimation. The intent of the course is to spell out a systems methodology for probabilistic systems from an information-theoretic point of view.
16:155
Offered Winter · 3 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit