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SUMMARY:Beyond bits: information theory in the age of intelligent machines
DESCRIPTION:The ‘bit’ transformed how we compress\, transmit and store 
 information. But as more information is produced by machines\, for machine
 s\, do the same rules still apply?\nProfessor Deniz Gündüz\, Professor i
 n Information Processing\, explores how information theory can help answer
  questions emerging in the age of intelligent machines. \nPlease register 
 to attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance will be avai
 lable here shortly. \nWe look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 11 Novem
 ber!\nImperial Inaugurals are term-time lectures that celebrate our newe
 st professors\, recognising their academic journey and showcasing their re
 search.\nAbstract\n\nIn 1948\, Claude Shannon showed how to put a number o
 n information: how much a source can be compressed\, and how much of it a 
 noisy channel can carry. Those limits turned communication from a craft in
 to a science\, and everything digital: the Internet\, mobile telephony\, d
 ata storage\, has been built around them. Shannon also gave us the ‘bit
 ’: common currency of the information age\, which let compression\, tran
 smission\, computation and security be treated as four separate problems
 \, solved by different engineers. \nSoon\, most of the information crossi
 ng our networks will be produced by machines\, for machines. How will bill
 ions of them communicate with each other: must they agree on a language in
  advance\, or can they learn one? And do those old boundaries still make s
 ense\, when a network can compute\, a compressor can learn\, and the whole
  chain from sensor to decision can be trained as one? \n\nBiography\nDeni
 z Gündüz is Professor of Information Processing at Imperial College Lond
 on\, where he leads the Information Processing and Communications Lab. In 
 his inaugural lecture he will argue that information theory is still the r
 ight instrument for answering such questions\, drawing on his group’s wo
 rk on machines that learn their own codes and protocols\; private and secu
 re computation\, in which machines compute together without revealing what
  they hold\; wireless image and video transmission that degrades gracefull
 y rather than failing outright\; and compression by neural networks that l
 earn a signal instead of encoding it. He will close on the question behind
  all of it: how far does information theory reach into an age of intellige
 nt machines? \n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212280/beyond-bits-information-theory
 -in-the-age-of-intelligent-machines/
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LOCATION:Lecture theatre 200\, City and Guilds Building\, South Kensington 
 Campus\, Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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