Course announcement


Essential Coding Theory (MIT 6.440)


Prereq: 6.006, 6.045.
Time: MW 11-12:30
Location: 26-204 [NOTE THE CHANGE as of  2/4/2013]
3-0-9 H-Level Grad Credit
Homepage: http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/ST13/ 

Introduces essential elements the theory of error-correcting codes. Focuses on the basic results in the area, taught from first principles. Special focus will be given on results of asymptotic or algorithmic significance. Principal topics include
Lecture notes for this course from previous offerings give further details on the material covered. These may be found at http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/FT01.

Instructor: Madhu Sudan