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Information and Entropy

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States6.050J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2008English
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This course explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the physical nature of information and information processing. Topics include: information and computation, digital signals, codes and compression, applications such as biological representations of information, logic circuits, computer architectures, and algorithmic information, noise, probability, error correction, reversible and irreversible operations, physics of computation, and quantum…

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