Channels MT441 (2006/7)

Recommended textbook is
D. Welsh
Other very good books are McKay
Jones and Jones
further details on the handout.

General info: [pdf]
Collection of all problem sheets: [pdf]
If you found typos or other errors please let me know.

Useful links to material on information theory etc.
A Short Course in Information Theory 8 lectures by David J.C. MacKay
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. A very good book! By David J.C. MacKay.
Information Theory/ Data Compression, lecture notes by J. Bierbrauer, postscript file

Claude Shannon's paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"

the editorial notes on this reedition of Shannon's paper, above.

Some material from MIT
A very brief latex guide