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SUMMARY:Foundations of the Information Age
DTSTART:20160630T083000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:\nNick Goldman\, European Bioinformatics Institute\nFrank Ksch
 ischang\, University of Toronto\nand Alon Orlitsky\, University of Califor
 nia\, San Diego\nIC Research Day \nThe ability to acquire\, store\, proces
 s and communicate large amounts of data forms the foundation of our inform
 ation age and continues to transform virtually every aspect of our life. 
  Information Theory is at the center of this development\, providing conce
 pts and measures of information -- such as the ``bit'' -- as well as algor
 ithms to process information in an ever changing technological landscape.\
 nIn data transmission\, the transition from wired to wireless communicatio
 n continues to have a tremendous impact. But it is also becoming increasin
 gly clear that a key enabling factor for these systems is a high-capacity 
 high-speed optical backbone.\nIn the realm of data processing\, Informatio
 n Theory is expanding its reach beyond communications and is playing an in
 creasingly important role in Statistics\, Machine Learning\, and Data Scie
 nce. Data storage started with punch cards\, transitioned to magnetic\, o
 ptical\, and silicon materials and is now exploring chemical and biologica
 l mechanisms.\nThis research day is devoted to some of the exciting curren
 t developments: Optical Communication\, Foundations of Machine Learning\, 
 and Data Storage in DNA sequences.  \nChairmen - Michael Gastpar et Rüdi
 ger Urbanke
LOCATION:SwissTech Convention Center -  Quartier Nord de l'EPFL  http://ww
 w.tstcc.ch/contact-acces/contact-acces/
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