This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, and Computing. It expects familiarity with calculus, probability theory, and linear algebra as taught in a first or second year undergraduate course on mathematics for scientists and engineers.
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This is a book about prime numbers, congruences, secret messages, and elliptic curves that you can read cover to cover. It grew out of undergraduate courses that the author taught at Harvard, UC San Diego, and the University of Washington.
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This book is devoted to the theory of probabilistic information measures and their application to coding theorems for information sources and noisy channels.
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The free Scratch programming environment gives everyone an easy way to learn programming skills. This book guides you through creating several video games in Scratch.
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Communicating Sequential Processes, or CSP, is a language for describing patterns of interaction. It is supported by an elegant, mathematical theory, a set of proof tools, and an extensive literature. The book Communicating Sequential Processes was first published in 1985 by Prentice Hall International (who have kindly released the copyright); it is an excellent introduction to the language, and also to the mathematical theory.
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Economic theory is no more than an arena for the investigation of concepts we use in thinking about economics in real life. What makes a theoretical model ‘economics’ is that the concepts we are analyzing are taken from real-life reasoning about economic issues.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) may lack an agreed-upon definition, but someone writing about its history must have some kind of definition in mind. Artificial intelligence is an activity devoted to making machines intelligent, and intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment.
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Bruce Hajek is a professor of the department of electrical and computer engineering, research professor of coordinated science laboratory and hoeft chair of college of engineering at University of Illinois. His research interests include Communication Networks, Auction Theory (e.g. combinatorial auctions for sale of spectrum licenses), Stochastic Analysis, Combinatorial Optimization, Machine Learning, Information Theory and Bioinformatics.
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