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Jack Baskin School of EngineeringUC Santa Cruz

CMPE 108


Basics of information theory, lossless coding (Huffman coding,
arithmetic coding, dictionary coding), lossy coding (PCM, predictive
coding, transform coding). Application to the compression of specific
data set, which may include biological time series, DNA sequences, and
multimedia streams. Prerequisite(s): course 107 or Applied Mathematics
and Statistics 131; and Computer Science 101. Knowledge of C language
and Unix required. R. Manduchi

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