This video is the second of two lectures in this unit. The first lecture of this unit is missing due to technical reasons.
Instructors: Prof. Paul Penfield, Prof. Seth Lloyd
Resources
Technical
Ward, S. A., and R. H. Jr. Halstead. Computation Structures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and McGraw-Hill, 1989. ISBN: 9780262231398.
This is the textbook for 6.004 Computation Structures.
Agarwal, Anant, and Jeffrey H. Lang. Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2005. ISBN: 9781558607354.
This is the textbook for 6.002 Circuits and Electronics.
Boolean Algebra: There are many excellent descriptions of Boolean Algebra at various technical levels on the Web. You can find many through Google.
Truxal, John G. The Age of Electronic Messages. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780262701020.
Lots of examples of codes, at an introductory level.
Historical
George Boole (1815-1864)
Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871)
Wilson, Geoffrey. The Old Telegraphs. London, UK: Phillimore and Co., 1976. ISBN: 9780900592799.
Describes several telegraph systems, in many countries, that predate electrical telegraphs.