Registrar Home | Registrar Search:
Home | Subject Search | Help | Symbols Help | Pre-Reg Help | Final Exam Schedule | My Selections

MIT Subject Listing & Schedule
IAP/Spring 2021 Search Results

Searched for:

1 subject found.

2.110[J] Information, Entropy, and Computation
______

Not offered academic year 2020-2021Undergrad (Spring)
(Same subject as 6.050[J])
Prereq: Physics I (GIR)
Units: 3-0-6
______
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. Biological representations of information. Logic circuits, computer architectures, and algorithmic information. Noise, probability, and error correction. The concept of entropy applied to channel capacity and to the second law of thermodynamics. Reversible and irreversible operations and the physics of computation. Quantum computation.
Staff