ISTA100

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ISTA100 - Great Ideas of the Information Age

Information ScienceUndergraduateUA - UA General

Course ID

035490

Course Description

Important ideas and applications of information science and technology in the sciences, humanities and arts. Information, entropy, coding; grammar and parsing; syntax and semantics; networks and relational representations; decision theory, game theory; and other great ideas form the intellectual motifs of the Information Age and are explored through applications such as robotic soccer, chess-playing programs, web search, population genetics among others.

Min Units

3

Max Units

3

Repeatable for Credit

No

Grading Basis

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Career

Undergraduate

Course Requisites

Required in the major. College algebra recommended.

May be convened with

Component

Lecture

Optional Component

No