information theory

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Introduction
Historical background
Classical information theory
- Shannon’s communication model
- Four types of communication
  - Discrete, noiseless communication and the concept of entropy
    - From message alphabet to signal alphabet
    - Some practical encoding/decoding questions
    - Entropy
  - Discrete, noisy communication and the problem of error
  - Continuous communication and the problem of bandwidth
Applications of information theory
- Data compression
- Error-correcting and error-detecting codes
- Cryptology
- Linguistics
- Algorithmic information theory
- Physiology
- Physics

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