Information and Compression
Introduction
Summary of Course
Agenda
Overview
Connections
Vocabulary
What is information
Voltage encoding
Noise Immunity
Decimal Computing
BCD encoding of 1998
BCD less dense
Nyquist Limit
Maxwells Demon
End Result – Free Heat
Szilards response
Topic Two: Shannon’s Theory
Information as Surprise
This explains inefficiency
of BCD
Determining encoding
efficiency
Mean info of a BCD digit
Topic Three: Algorithmic
Information
Randomness and p
Randomness
Randomness goal of
compression
Information is not meaning
Information is not
complexity
Topic Four: Limits to
compression
Consequence of Goedels
theorem
Image sizes
Storage capacities
Video on CD rom
Telecoms links
Summary
Where to get more
information
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