Electrical Engineering 229

Title	Information Theory and Coding
Units	3
Prerequisites	226 recommended, Statistics 200A or equivalent.
Description	Fundamental bounds of Shannon theory and their application. Source and channel coding theorems. Galois field theory, algebraic error-correction codes. Private and public-key cryptographic systems.

Sections	Instructor	Teaching Effectiveness	How worthwhile was this course?
Spring 2004	Anant Sahai	5.6 / 7	5.6 / 7
Spring 2003	Venkat Anantharam	4.8 / 7	5.7 / 7
Spring 2001	David Tse	6.1 / 7	5.8 / 7
Spring 1999	Venkat Anantharam	5.2 / 7	5.7 / 7
Spring 1997	Venkat Anantharam	5.1 / 7	5.6 / 7
Spring 1995	Venkat Anantharam	5.0 / 7	5.5 / 7
Spring 1992	Jean Walrand	5.4 / 7	5.5 / 7
Overall Rating		Teaching Effectiveness	How worthwhile was this course?
		5.3 / 7	5.6 / 7