This is the archived version of this course from the Spring 2013 semester. You might find something more recent by visitning my teaching page.
Read the following article on the relationship between the notion of entropy in information theory and in physics:
"Entropy, information, and computation", J. Matcha, 1999
This is a relatively short article and it is written at a general audience level so that you should be able to understand most of it. Summarize the article and emphasize the main points. I want this to be, at least in part, a technical summary that gives at least some insight into the content rather than just a high-level description.