6.341  Discrete-Time Signal Processng

Recitation tomorrow / previous final exams online

Dear 6.341 students,

I will be holding recitation tomorrow (12/10) at the usual place and times, in our typical open-ended style (i.e. with no pre-specified agenda). Please feel free to stop by with questions about any of the topics that were covered during the course.

Also, the final exam from F'09 has been posted on the Stellar site, along with a link to previous exams on OCW. Note that although we are providing previous exams, they are not necessarily meant to indicate the scope, length or difficulty of future exams.

Thanks,
-Tom

Announced on 09 December 2010  3:49  p.m. by Thomas A. Baran

HKN course evaluations and topic questionnaire

The HKN 6.341 on line course evaluation form is now open at https://sixweb.mit.edu/student/evaluate/6.341-f2010 or at http://sixweb.mit.edu/.The feedback from these evaluations plays an important role in course development, allocation of resources for future offerings of the course and evaluation of the staff by the dept. and school of engineering, etc. It also is an important source of information for students considering which courses to take each semester. All of us take the feedback from these evaluations very seriously and we strongly encourage you to participate. While we welcome applause for things that we've done well, we also welcome serious constructive comment on aspects that can and should be changed or improved.

High class participation in the evaluation process is essential if it is to have any significant meaning so we strongly encourage you to go to the online site as soon as possible and complete the evaluation form.The hope is for at least 90% participation in 341 this semester.

As a partial way of encouraging you to participate in both the topic questionnaire and the HKN evaluation, I propose having on the final exam a no-credit question asking whether you participated in both, with possible answers being YES, PREFER NOT TO ANSWER. Among the "yes" respondents one will be selected at random with the winner receiving a free autographed copy of either (your choice) the course textbook or the Signals and Systems textbook (Oppenheim and Willsky).

Announced on 07 December 2010  9:13  a.m. by Alan V Oppenheim

PS7 and lecture on 10/21

Dear 6.341 students,

We would like to point out that in the lecture on Thursday, 10/21 we will cover a technique that will make your lives easier when working on Problem 7.4, distributed today. Specifically, for that problem we suggest that you first determine the 3rd-order all-pole model in Part (b) by generating a 3rd-order inverse-whitening lattice filter using the technique that will be covered in the Thursday lecture. The resulting lattice structure can then be used to generate both the 2nd-order model in Part (a) and the 3rd-order model in Part (b) from the lattice k-parameters using the recursion in Fig. 6.38 in the text.

Thanks,
-Tom

Announced on 19 October 2010  4:12  p.m. by Thomas A. Baran

Final Exam date

Announced on 04 October 2010  11:31  a.m. by Thomas A. Baran

Correction in Background Exam solution

Announced on 30 September 2010  2:05  p.m. by Thomas A. Baran