basic concepts and fundamental results in information theory, basic properties
of the rate- distortion function, alternative representations of the rate-
distortion function, the arimoto- blahut algorithm, the rate- distortion
function for sources with memory, the gaussian source, bounds on the rate-
distortion function, vector quantization, the effect of side information,
progressive ( scalable ) coding, error exponents in source coding, casual,
source coding, high- resolution source coding techniques.
