{"id":30,"date":"2014-12-18T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-12-20T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:28:24","slug":"information-theory-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/2014\/12\/18\/information-theory-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Theory &amp; Coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to teach a module entitled &#8220;Information Theory &amp; Coding&#8221; from 2006 to 2012. Although it is no longer taught at Newcastle University, I still have a fairly\u00a0complete\u00a0set of lecture notes that some of you might enjoy reading.<\/p>\n<p>You can download it\u00a0by clicking on the link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/files\/2014\/12\/EEE2004.pdf\">EEE2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics that was introduced by\u00a0Claude Elwood Shannon in 1948. Information theory\u00a0finds its applications\u00a0in many fields such as data compression, data protection, neurobiology, genetic evolution, finance,\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to teach a module entitled &#8220;Information Theory &amp; Coding&#8221; from 2006 to 2012. Although it is no longer taught at Newcastle University, I still have a fairly\u00a0complete\u00a0set of lecture notes that some of you might enjoy reading. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/2014\/12\/18\/information-theory-coding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informationtheory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stephanelegoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}