Displaying 1 of 1 2015 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: The science of information from language to Black Holes. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, 2015. ©2015 Description: 4 videodiscs (720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) Series: The great courses. Science. Physics & chemistry Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Physics. Subjects: Information theory. Other Author: Schumacher, Benjamin, teacher. Teaching Company, publisher. Notes: Lectures. Instructional/educational program. Title from container. "24 lectures/30 minutes per lecture." Lecturer, Professor Benjamin Schumacher. DVD; NTSC; full screen presentation. Contents: The transformability of information -- Computation and logic gates -- Measuring information-- Entropy and the average surprise -- Data compression and prefix-free codes -- Encoding images and sounds -- Noise and channel capacity -- Error-correcting codes -- Signals and bandwidth -- Cryptography and key entropy -- Cryptanalysis and unraveling the enigma -- Unbreakable codes and public keys -- What genetic information can do -- Life's origins and DNA computing -- Neural codes in the brain -- Entropy and microstate information -- Erasure cost and reversible computing -- Horse races and stock markets -- Turing machines and algorithmic information -- Uncomputable functions and incompleteness -- Qubits and quantum information -- Quantum cryptography via entanglement -- It from bit: physics from information -- The meaning of information. ISBN: 1629972290 9781629972299 Other Number: 935571093 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 558990 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 003.54 Science Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
