MIT 6.050J / 2.110J Information and Entropy, Spring 2008

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Instructors: Paul Penfield, Seth Lloyd 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 computation. The concept of entropy applied to channel capacity and to the second law of thermodynamics. See the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-050js08 Album art image courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.