Random Processes in Systems

I wrote these notes as I was teaching the course in Fall 2005 to a class of bright and inquisitive students at Berkeley. I had the great luck of having Antonis Dimakis as a teaching assistant for the class. Antonis has an unusually deep understanding of probability and a knack for creating examples that illustrate the main points particularly crisply. The students and Antonis have my gratitude for their inputs. In particular, I want to single out Ming-Yang Chen for his meticulous reading and correcting of the notes. As we use th ese notes in subsequent versions of the course, I hope the students will be kind enough to point out errors and needed clarications of the material. In fact, I know they will....