IS2120 Lecture Schedule
Week 1 *** January 7, [No Class Jan 9]
Week 2 *** January 14, 16
Week 3 *** January 23 [No Class 21 -- MLK Day]
- Hamming Chapter 3
- Error correcting codes
- Homework Set 3 due January 30
Week 4 *** January 28, 30
- Hamming Chapter 4
- Variable length codes
- Kraft, MacMillan Inequalities
- Homework Set 4 due February 11
Week 5 *** February 4, 6
Week 6 *** February 10, 12
- Hamming Chapter 5 (cont) and review for Exam I
- Other codes: Markov processes, run-length encoding, hashing, gray
Week 7 *** February 17, 19
- Review for Exam I and Exam I
- Other codes: Markov processes, run-length encoding, hashing, gray
Week 8 *** February 24, 26
- Hamming Chapter 6
- Entropy
NO CLASS March 4, 6 -- Spring Break!
Week 9 *** March 11, 13
- Hamming Chapter 6 (cont), Chap 7
- Shannon's Fundamental Theorem
- Information Channels
- Homework Set 6 due March 20
Week 10 *** March 18, 20
- Hamming Chapter 7, 8
- Mutual Information
- Channel Capacity
- Homework Set 7 due March 27
Week 11 *** March 25, 27
- Review for Exam II and Exam II
Week 12 *** April 1, 3
- Hamming Chapter 9
- Mathematical Preliminaries
- Factorials, Stirling's approximation, Gamma function,
High dimensional spaces, Chebyshev's inequality
- Homework Set 9 due April 12
Week 13 *** April 8, 10
Hamming Chapter 10
The Fundamental Theorem: proof and analysis
Homework Set 10 due April 19
Week 14 *** April 15, 17
Week 15 *** EXAM WEEK! ***