resources

textbook

• Codes: an introduction to information communication and cryptography by Norman Biggs

articles

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

other books

• MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
  (pdf free for download; print for sale)
  • info theory software
• Cover & Thomas Elements of Information Theory - popular grad textbook, dense and challenging

hamming codes

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

previous M'boro courses

• spring 2009 version of this course

other

• software tools - editors, compilers, statistics, etc
• Copyright and Plgiarism
• creative commons