Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  Department of Mechanical Engineering  6.050J / 2.110J     Information and Entropy     Spring 2004

Unit 1: Bits

Schedule

Lecture Handouts

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

• Spring 2004 Signup Sheet
• Spring 2004 Home Page
• General Information
• Guidelines for Homework Submission
• Personnel
• Unit 1 Resources (this page)
• Problem Set 1
• 6.050J/2.110J Notes
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Bits
• MIT 6.002 Notes, Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits, by Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey H. Lang, version 7.2. Portions of Chapter 5, The Digital Abstraction (pp. 351-382); March 4, 2003
• Thomas F. Weiss, Introduction to MATLAB, used in 6.003 Signals and Systems; Fall 1999

Reading Assignment

• Notes, Preface
• Notes, Chapter 1

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. If you are using Mac OS X, that operating system incorporates a PDF viewer so you do not need Acrobat Reader.

Resources

Laboratory

• Thomas F. Weiss, MIT, Introduction to Matlab, used in 6.003; Fall 1999
    http://mtlsites.mit.edu/Courses/6.050/2004/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 18, 1997
  
  • Contents:  http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/
  • Matlab Basics Tutorial:  http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/basic/basic.html
• Kermit Sigmon, University of Florida, MATLAB Primer, second edition, translated to HTML by Nam Sun Wang, University of Maryland
    http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nsw/ench250/primer.htm

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

Historical

• George Boole (1815 - 1864)
• Augustus De Morgan (1806 - 1871)

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 2004 to 6.050-staff at mit.edu.