Important dates (subject to change): 08/26 - Introduction 08/28 - Ch.2: Entropy and mutual information 09/02 - HOLIDAY (Labour day) NO CLASS 09/04, 09/09 - Ch.2: Entropy and mutual information 09/11, 09/16, 09/18 - Ch.3: Asymptotic Equipartition Property (AEP) 09/18 - Ch.4: Entropy rate of a stochastic process (only a very small portion) 09/23, 09/25, 09/30 - Ch.5: Data compression 10/02 - MIDTERM 1 IN CLASS (one cheat sheet) 10/07, 10/09, 10/14 - Ch.7: Channel capacity 10/16, 10/21, 10/23 - Ch.8: Differential entropy 10/28, 10/30, 11/04 - Ch.9: Gaussian channel 11/06 - MIDTERM 2 IN CLASS (two cheat sheets) 11/11, 11/13- Ch.10: Rate-distortion theory 11/18, 11/20, 11/25: Network information Theory 11/27: PROJECT DUE, Network information theory 12/02 - PROJECT: hand in reviews of 2 other peoples' papers. This class will likely be a review for the final, or a survey of my own work. 12/04: FINAL EXAM IN CLASS (3 cheat sheets), hopefully 2 hours
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