resources

articles

• wikipedia: information theory
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication (pdf) by Claude Shannon
• Dr Ross's Compression Crypt
• Handy alternative description of Discrete Cosine Transform (pdf)

online books

• MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (pdf available for download; print for sale)
  • info theory software

hamming codes

• http://candle.ctit.utwente.nl/wp5/tel-sys/exercises/datalinkp2p/hamming74demo.html