Journey into information theory

Topic outline

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  General

  • News forum
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  1 Lesson. Ancient information theory
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  What is information theory
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  Origins of written language
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  History of the alphabet
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  Ptolemaic Rosetta Stone
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  Source encoding
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  Visual telegraphs (case study)
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  Electrostatic telegraphs (case study)
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  The battery and electromagnetism
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  Morse code and the information age
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  2 Lesson. Modern information theory
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  Symbol rate
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  Introduction to channel capacity
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  Measuring information
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  Origin of Markov chains
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  A mathematical theory of communication
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  Information entropy
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  Compression codes
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  Error correction
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  The search for extraterrestrial intelligence