The error detection and control course examines error detection in communication and recording systems and control measures for reliable digital transmission and storage. Topics include signal detection in white and colored noise, random waveform, matched filtering, m-ary signal detection, nonparametric detection, error control coding including major classes of codes that important in practice such as binary linear block codes, Reed Muller codes, Galois fields, linear block codes over a finite field, cyclic codes, BCH and Reed Solomon codes, convolutional codes and trellis decoding, message passing decoding algorithms, trellis based soft decision decoding of block codes, turbo codes, and low density parity check codes.