Università Roma Tre

The course of Information Theory is devoted to the study of Shannon's Theory of coding and compressing for reliable communication. The quantitative study of information carried by data communications involves an interest area including statistical inference, natural language processing, cryptography, neurobiology, molecular codes, quantum computing. We will start with basic notions on random variables, and we will prove basic theorems such as channel coding and source coding. We will consider applications to lossless data compression, lossy data compression and channel coding. Several links to cryptography will be provided as well.