notes

• intro class
• Jan 28 - entropy 1
• Jan 30 - entropy 2; start huffman
• Feb 3 - moby - Moby Dick with huffman homework
• Feb 6 - lossless
• Feb 11 - DCT - jpeg lossy compression
• Feb 13 - DCT practice
• Feb 18 - noise 1 - finish jpeg ; start Biggs chap 5 - noise & channel capacity
• Feb 20 - mutual information
• Feb 25 - error correcting ideas
• Feb 27 - noise homework & error correction basics
• Mar 4 - no class (VT Town Meeting day)
• Mar 6 - finish chap 6 and 7
• Mar 11 - linear codes
• Mar 13 - more linear codes
• - spring break -
• Apr 1 review & summary project
• Apr 3 Hamming codes
• Apr 8 CRC codes
• Apr 10 start crypto
• Apr 15 vigenere and symmetric crypto
• Apr 17 - Jim out sick
• Apr 22 internet crypto
• Apr 24 diffie and rsa
• Apr 29 - no class
• May 1 - no class
• May 6 - transmission project wrapup