Computational Mechanics Group Readings

Last update: 3 May 2007

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"Prediction and Entropy of Printed English" (1MB): Claude Shannon; Bell System Technical Journal, 50: 50-64.

"Bandwagon" (Editorial): Claude Shannon; IRE Transactions on Information Theory, 2 (1956): 50-64.

"Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems": Claude Shannon; Material taken from declassified report, "Mathematical Theory of Cryptography" (1946): 656-715.

"General Properties of Entropy" (7.7MB): Alfred Wehrl; Rev. Mod. Phys., 50.2 (1978): 221-260.

"The Information Bottleneck Method": Naftali Tishby, Fernando C. Pereira, William Bialek

"Three Models for the Description of Language" (1.5MB): Noam Chomsky; IRE Transactions on Information Theory 2 (1956): 113-124.

Python: Batteries Included

Computing in Science & Engineering Vol. 9, No. 2, May/June 2007

The full issue is quite large, 96 pages (15MB), so for portability it is divided into 4 parts:

Part 1 of 4, pp. 1-29 (3.4MB)
Part 2 of 4, pp. 30-47 (2.3MB)
Part 3 of 4, pp. 48-74 (4.8MB)
Part 4 of 4, pp. 75-96 (3.4MB)