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Lecture 1: Overview: Information and Entropy
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Description: This lecture covers some history of digital communication, with a focus on Samuel Morse and Claude Shannon, measuring information and defining information, the significance of entropy on encodings, and Huffman’s coding algorithm.
Instructor: George Verghese
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