This is an attempt to make a carefully argued set of class notes freely available. The source code for these notes can be downloaded from www.econ.utah.edu/ehrbar/ecmet-sources.zip Copyright Hans G. Ehrbar under the GNU Public License The present version has those chapters relevant for Econ 7800.

Recommended Literature • Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2006. • Robert G. Gallager, Information Theory and Reliable Communication, John Wiley & Sons, 1968. • Imre Csiszár and János Körner, Information Theory: Coding Theorems for Discrete Memoryless Systems, Academic Press, 1981. • Raymond W. Yeung, A First Course in Information...

Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (spring) Applications of optimization [1] 2 1 4 Formal methods [2]

First discovered in 1961 by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod in Paris, regulation genes are a type of gene that provides the instructions for creating proteins which help control the expression of other structural genes. These genes play a key role in gene expression. From the DNA level to the protein level, we see that the protein coding genes, which occupy a small percentage of the genome, ar...

In modern programming languages, genericity allows abstracting over types, enabling programmers to develop algorithms and data structures regardless of the data being handled. This tremendeously improves productivity and code reuse. Although generics offer a uniform programming experience accross different types, the actual data comes in different sizes and shapes. For example, we can equally i...

Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (spring) Applications of optimization [1] 2 1 4 Formal methods [2]