161-A1.1
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- Activity: Who is Claude Shannon?
- Instructions: In this activity, you are tasked to
- Read two articles on Claude Shannon.
- Write a short (1-page) report.
- Should you have any questions, clarifications, or issues, please contact your instructor as soon as possible.
Articles
- John Horgan, Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory, IEEE Spectrum, 2016 (link)
- Graham P. Collins, Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory, Scientific American, October 14, 2002 (link)
Report Guide
- Based on the the papers (not limited to the two papers above) you have read, and any other resource that is available to you, write a short (1-page) report on one possible application of information theory in the field of computer engineering that you are interested in.
- Answer yet another ball and urn problem: Given an urn with 4 red balls, 3 green balls, and 2 yellow balls:
- How much information (in bits) do you get when you choose a (i) red ball, (ii) green ball, (iii) or a yellow ball.
- What is the entropy (or average information) you get (in bits) when you choose a ball from the bin?
Submission
Submit your report via email before proceeding to Module 2.
