• Interesting brief excerpts from Warren Weaver’s Introduction to: Claude Shannon’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication.
• Net Resources on Data Compression and Information Theory
• The Squeeze Page

• Information Theory Primer: a beautiful and "gentle" introduction to information theory by  Thomas D. Schneider of the NIH Laboratory of Molecular Biology  (Download this file and save as a postscript file which may printed or read with a postscript converter).
• A Short Course in Information Theory: lecture notes (PostScript format) from a Cambridge University introductory course. Technical Information - Information Theory: an extensive collection of web links prepared bt Ray Chiang (does not seem to be active at this time 09/01/99).
• Entropy on the World Wide Web: an excellent collection of links, articles and tutorials on information theory, coding theory and related matters -- by Chris Hillman of the University of Washington.
• Speech Coding: a excellent tutorial on speech and speech encoding from the Mobile Multimedia Research Group, University of Southampton.
• The Early Days of Voice Synthesis: a old, but valuable Byte article which reviews speech concepts and various means for voice synthesis.
• Pattern Recognition on the Web: an extensive collection of web links for a computer vision course at McGill University.
  
   
• MPEG
   
• MPEG Pointers and Resources: provides some good sources of information.
• An MPEG Primer from Digital Bitcasting
• Understanding MPEG 2 Digital Video Compression
• MPEG Technical Overview: from C-Cube Microsystems
• The Philips MPEG Primer: from SOS Communications.
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  Information Theory in Modem Practice: A very informative paper on applied information theory. (Download this file and save as a postscript file which may printed or read with a postscript converter).

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