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Awards Reception July 9, 2024 (Tuesday)18:30-20:30

Information Theory Society presents a brief history of internet communication and packet switched networks leading to the idea of network coding.…

2024 Shannon Lecture Andrew Barron (Yale University, USA)

ISIT 2024 Plenary Lecture  

ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece Meet the Shannon Awardee

Information Theory Society presents how the Lempel-Ziv lossless compression algorithm works. It was published in 1978  and improved by Welch in 1984…

What motivated the concept of Markov chains & Markov models? Featuring Plato's theory of forms, Jacob Bernoulli's weak law of large numbers and…

Morse Code Simulator: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/appl...​

Claude Shannon demonstrated how to generate "english looking" text using Markov chains and how this gives a satisfactory representation of the…

How can we quantify/measure an information source? We introduce the ideas of Nyquist & Hartley using a simple game involving yes/no questions. It…

Information Theory Society presents the key concepts needed to understand low-density parity-check codes (LDPC codes). It's a blend of repetition…

  The key insights behind content and collaborative filtering (Matrix Factorization). How Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and others predict what you will…

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society presents an overview of Adi Shamir's 1979 paper on secret sharing. This is part of our series on the greatest…

ISIT 2024 Plenary Lecture

ISIT 2024 Plenary Lecture

ISIT 2024 Plenary Lecture

Web traffic today is increasingly dominated by automated agents and web scanners, with the share of automated traffic almost equalling the share of…