MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Spring 2002 Catalogue Supplement

6.095 Information and Entropy (U)

L TR 12, Room 37-212, R1 R12, 34-302, R2 R12, 34-304
Professor Paul Penfield, Jr., Room 38-344, 3-2506, Professor Seth Lloyd, Room 3-160, 2-1803
Prereq.: 8.01 or 8.012 or 8.01L or 8.01X
2-1-3

Unified theory of information with applications to computing, communications, thermodynamics, and other sciences. Digital signals and streams, codes, compression, noise, and probability. Reversible and irreversible operations. Information in biological systems. Channel capacity. Maximum-entropy formalism. Thermodynamic equilibrium, temperature. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Quantum computation. Limited enrollment in Spring 2002, with priority given to freshmen.