Signals, Systems and Information for Media Technology
MAS160/510
Fall 2001
Staff | Syllabus | Texts
| Exams | Policies
- Instructors:
- V. Michael
Bove, Jr., E15-368B,
x3-0334, vmb@media.mit.edu
(office hours by appointment -- or if my office door is open, please walk in!)
- Rosalind
Picard, E15-020G,
x3-0611, picard@media.mit.edu
(office hours Wed. 3:30-4:30 except on 10/10, also by appointment)
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- Teaching Assistants:
- Sy Bor Wang, sybor@mit.edu
Carson Reynolds (grader), E15-120F, x3-8628, carsonr@media.mit.edu
- Secretary:
- Pat Turner, E15-368, x3-0351, lanigan@media.mit.edu
- Handouts:
- We will post copies to this page as they become available.
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- Meeting Times:
- Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday 12:30-2, E15-054
Recitation: Friday 1-2, E15-054
- Sep. 6
- Introduction
- Overview of subjects to be covered. Basic math concepts.
Notation.Vocabulary. Representation of systems.
- Reading: MSY 1.1-1.4, A.1-A.6 (A.5 is optional)
- Problem Set 1 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
- Sep. 11
- Sinusoids
- Complex exponentials.
- Reading: MSY 2.1-2.9
- Sep. 13
- Spectra
- Spectrum plots. AM.
- Reading: MSY 3.1-3.4, C.7.1.3
- Problem Set 1 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
Problem Set 2 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
- Sep. 18
- Periodic Waveforms
- Fourier series. FM.
- Reading: MSY 3.5-3.6
- Sep. 20
- Basis Functions and Orthogonality
- Defintion of orthogonality. Walsh functions and other
basis sets.
- Reading: handouts
- Problem Set 2 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
- Problem Set 3 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
- Sep. 25
- Sampling, I
- Sampling theorem. Aliasing.
- Reading: MSY 4.1-4.3
- Sep. 27
- Sampling, II
- Reconstruction.
- Reading: MSY 4.4-4.6
- Problem Set 3 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
- Oct. 2
- Pre-Quiz Wrap-Up
- Oct. 4
- QUIZ 1
- Oct. 9
- HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS
- Oct. 11
- Communication Theory, I
- Ergodic processes/Markov models. Choice, uncertainty
and entropy. Shannon's fundamental theorem for a noiseless channel.
Entropy coding.
- Reading: Shannon and Weaver pp. 3-64.
- Problem Set 4 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
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- Oct. 16
- Discrete-Time Systems, I
- FIR filters. Impulse response. Convolution.
- Reading: MSY 5.1-5.3
- Problem Set 4 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
Problem Set 5 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
- Oct. 18
- Discrete-Time Systems, II
- Implementations of general LTI systems.
- Reading: MSY 5.4-5.9
- Oct. 23
- Frequency Response, I
- Response of FIR systems. Properties.
- Reading: MSY 6.1-6.4
- Problem Set 5 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
Problem Set 6 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
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- Oct. 25
- Frequency Response, II
- Oct. 30
- Z-Transforms, I
- Definitions. Convolution and the z-transform. Poles and
zeros.
- Reading: MSY 7.1-7.6.2
- Problem Set 6 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
Problem Set 7 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
- Nov. 1
- IIR Systems
- Definitions. Impulse response and frequency response.
- Reading: MSY 8.1-8.5
- Nov. 6
- Z-Transforms, II
- Inverse Z-transform. Stability. Partial fraction expansion.
- Reading: MSY 8.6-8.9
- Nov. 8
- Pre-Quiz Wrap-Up
- Nov. 13
- QUIZ 2
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- Nov. 15
- Spectrum Analysis, I
- The DFT. Fast algorithms.
- Reading: MSY 9.1.1, 9.2.2, 9.3.1-9.3.2, 9.3.5-9.3.7
- Problem Set 8 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
- Nov. 20
- Spectrum Analysis, II
- The DTFT
- Reading: MSY 9.4-9.7
- Nov. 22
- HOLIDAY -- NO CLASS
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- Nov. 27
- Practical Filter Design
- Reading: MSY 7.7-7.10, 8.10-8.11, Handouts
- Problem Set 8 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
- Problem Set 9 handed out. (.pdf,
.ps, .dvi,
.tex)
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- Nov. 29
- Psychophysics, Psychoacoustics, and Other Physiological Signals
- Dec. 4
- Practical Communication Systems
- Real-world modulation and demodulation methods. Spread-spectrum.
- Reading: Handouts
- Dec.6
- Communication Theory II
- Discrete channels with noise. Continuous channels. Error
detection and correction.
- Reading: Shannon and Weaver pp. 65-80, handouts.
- Problem Set 9 due. Solutions available(.pdf,
.ps,.dvi,
.tex).
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- Dec. 11
- Final Exam Review
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- Dec. 18
- Final Exam 1:30-4:30, E15-054
Staff | Syllabus
| Texts | Exams | Policies
- Texts:
- McClellan, Schafer, and Yoder, DSP First, Prentice-Hall
- Shannon and Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication,
U. Illinois Press.
- Recommended for those who want more help:
- Karu, Signals and Systems Made Ridiculously Simple,
ZiZi Press.
Computer Facilities: The Matlab system will be used
throughout the semester. While it is available on various machines
in the Media Lab, we strongly encourage your getting an Athena
account and working from there. For on-line help see Athena's
Matlab Information Pages.
Handouts: Handouts should be available on this web site
in a timely fashion, if you miss class, or misplace your paper
copies. We may also have a few paper copies around the back of E15-368.
If you can't locate what you want, please
ask the TA.
Exams: There will be two in-class quizzes and a final
examination. All are open-book and open-notes, and we suggest
bringing along a calculator that knows about trigonometric functions.
Grading: Your grade will be determined as a weighted
average: 25% homework, 20% each quiz, 25% final exam, 10% class
participation.
Academic Honesty Policy: We think collaboration is a fine
thing, and encourage studying in groups and discussing the topics
covered in class. However, since problem sets will be graded, copying
of problem set answers constitutes cheating and will be
penalized. While general discussions and collaboration on the problem
sets is appropriate, detailed discussion of specific solutions or
sharing of answers is a violation of the trust placed in all students
in the class, each of whom is entrusted with producing a set of
answers on his/her own. Students who copy problem sets or allow their
answers to be copied may be assigned a 0 for all the Problem Sets (25%
of the grade). Any student who commits an act of academic dishonesty
regarding a quiz, such as copying answers or altering a quiz prior to
a request for a regrade, will be assigned an F for the course.
Late Homework: We realize that many of our students
lead complicated and demanding lives, and will allow you to hand
in up to two problem sets late -- without penalty -- as long as
you get permission from one of the faculty or TAs at least a day
in advance of the regular due date. The delay is limited, however,
and under no circumstances will you receive credit for a problem
set after we have made available the solutions.
Staff | Syllabus
| Texts | Exams | Policies
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