Lecture 1: Overview: Information and Entropy

Name: Lecture 1: Overview: Information and Entropy
Uploaded: 2014-03-18T14:30:47Z
Duration: 49 min 9 s
Description: Description: This lecture covers some history of digital communication, with a focus on Samuel Morse and Claude Shannon, measuring information and defining information, the significance of entropy on encodings, and Huffman’s coding algorithm. Instructor: George Verghese

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Description: This lecture covers some history of digital communication, with a focus on Samuel Morse and Claude Shannon, measuring information and defining information, the significance of entropy on encodings, and Huffman’s coding algorithm.

Instructor: George Verghese