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Information and Entropy (Penfield)

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This text explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the physical nature of information and information processing. Topics include: information and computation, digital signals, codes and compression, applications such as biological representations of information, logic circuits, computer architectures, and algorithmic information, noise, probability, error correction, reversible and irreversible operations, physics of computation, and quantum computation. The concept of entropy is applied to channel capacity and to the second law of thermodynamics.


This page titled Information and Entropy (Penfield) is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Paul Penfield, Jr. (MIT OpenCourseWare) via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform.

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