6.050J/2.110J - Spring 2003 Unit 1

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering

6.050J / 2.110J Information and Entropy Spring 2003

Unit 1: Bits and Codes

Schedule

Lecture	Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, 12:00 PM	Room 37-212
Recitation	Thursday, Feb 6, 2003, 12:00 PM	Room 37-212
Problem Set	Posted Friday, Jan 31, 2003	Due Friday, Feb 7, 2003
Solutions	Posted Friday, Feb 7, 2003

Lecture Handouts

Students who for any reason did not receive these items can pick up a copy in Room 38-344. Most of this material is also available on the 6.050J/2.110J Web sitehttp://mtlsites.mit.edu/Courses/6.050.

Spring 2003 Signup Sheet
Spring 2003 Home Page
General Information
Personnel
Unit 1 Resources (this page)
Problem Set 1
6.050J/2.110J Notes
MIT 6.002 Notes, Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits, by Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey H. Lang, version 7.1. Portions of Chapter 6, The Digital Abstraction (pp. 399-452), and Chapter 7, The MOSFET Switch (pp. 463-528)
MIT EECS MATLAB Tutorial, used in 6.003; 1999

Reading Assignment

Notes, Preface
Notes, Chapter 1
Notes, Chapter 2

Note: the 6.050J/2.110J notes, problem sets, and solutions, as well as several recommended resources, are in Portable Document Format (PDF). These may be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download free if you do not already have it. If you are on Athena, the reader is already installed for you.

Resources

Laboratory

MIT EECS MATLAB Tutorial, used in 6.003; 1999
http://mtlsites.mit.edu/Courses/6.050/2003/notes/matlab.pdf
MATLAB on Athena, MIT; 1998
http://web.mit.edu/olh/Matlab/Matlab.html
Control Tutorials for Matlab, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan; August 11, 1997
http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/basic/basic.html

Technical

S. A. Ward and R. H. Halstead, Jr., "Computation Structures," MIT Press and McGraw-Hill; 1990. 6.004 text
Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey H. Lang, "6.002 Notes: Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits," Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; version 7.1, January 27, 2003
Boolean Algebra http://bit.umkc.edu/vu/course/cs281/lectures/boolean-algebra/boolean-algebra.html
Telephone area code information, 3 sites http://www.lincmad.com http://www.area-code.us http://frodo.bruderhof.com/areacode
International Telephone Country Codes http://www.lincmad.com/countrycodes.html
Genetic code chart http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/%7Eamundsen/chlamy/code.html
Morse code http://scoutnet.ch/archives/books/morse.htm http://ac6v.com/morsetid.htm http://www.soton.ac.uk/%7Escp93ch/refer/morseform.html http://wasp-wwii.org/wasp/sound/morse1.html

Historical

George Boole (1815 - 1864)
Augustus De Morgan (1806 - 1871)
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791 - 1872) biography obituaries
Teletype machines
Data communications Museum
Telecom history, timeline . . 1800s . . 1900s . . 1920s . . 1930s
. . 1940s . . 1950s . . 1960s . . 1970s . . 1980s . . 1990s . . 2000s

Help Wanted

6.050J/2.110J students: be the first to suggest a resource, for example a useful Web site or a good book or article, to add to the list above. If your suggestion is accepted by the 6.050J/2.110J staff, you will get a $5 ice-cream gift certificate. Send your suggestion by e-mail during Spring 2003 to 6.050-staff at mit.edu.