Meets:    MW 2:15–3:25pm,   Ross 247.
Instructor:    Eric Moorhouse,   Ross 216,   766-4394.

HW2 (Due Mon Nov 24) is available below.

  Course announcement (326 KB)

Links/Handouts

•   Syllabus / Policies (105 KB). With at least one corrected reference
•   A qualitative comparison of entropy (91 KB) for some typical sources
•   Entropy (448 KB)
•   Statistical dependence and independence (95 KB)
•   Error-Correcting Codes (498 KB). With some corrections on page 1
•   Data Compression (191 KB)
•   Brief outline of coding theory (93 KB). An appendix from my course notes on Incidence Geometry (Fall 2007)
•   Reed-Solomon Codes (83 KB)
•   Van Lint's introduction to Algebraic Geometric Codes (1.36 MB)

Assigned Homework

•   HW1 (116 KB)   due Mon Oct 6, 2008
•   HW2 (142 KB)   due Mon Nov 24. This assignment is personalized. The copy handed out in class contains the word you need to decode. If you misplace this, let me know and I can email you a copy of your word.

/ revised September, 2008