Richly illustrated, filled with worked examples and over 400 exercises, some with detailed solutions, david mackays groundbreaking book is ideal for. Conventional courses on information theory cover not only the beauti ful theoretical ideas of shannon, but also practical solutions to communica tion problems. Information theory, inference and learning algorithms by. Information theory, inference, and learning algorithms by david. He was the regius professor of engineering in the department of engineering at the university of cambridge and from 2009 to 2014 was chief scientific adviser to the uk department of energy and climate change. Information theory, pattern recognition and neural. These topics lie at the heart of many exciting areas of contemporary science and engineering communication, signal processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition. Mackay also has thorough coverage of source and channel coding but i really like the chapters on inference. The rest of the book is provided for your interest. Richly illustrated, filled with worked examples and over 400 exercises, some with detailed solutions, david mackays groundbreaking book is ideal for selflearning.
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