• Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was established and formalized...
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    In information theory, the entropy of a random variable quantifies the average level of uncertainty or information associated with the variable's potential...
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    Integrated information theory (IIT) proposes a mathematical model for the consciousness of a system. It comprises a framework ultimately intended to explain...
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    in information theory are mutual information, channel capacity, error exponents, and relative entropy. Important sub-fields of information theory include...
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  • The receiver in information theory is the receiving end of a communication channel. It receives decoded messages/information from the sender, who first...
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  • Structural information theory (SIT) is a theory about human perception and in particular about visual perceptual organization, which is a neuro-cognitive...
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    Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated...
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  • discusses how information theory (a branch of mathematics studying the transmission, processing and storage of information) is related to measure theory (a branch...
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  • information theory (AIT) is a branch of theoretical computer science that concerns itself with the relationship between computation and information of...
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  • subsequent leaks. Beyond applications to programming language, information flow control theories have been applied to operating systems, distributed systems...
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  • In information theory, redundancy measures the fractional difference between the entropy H(X) of an ensemble X, and its maximum possible value log ⁡ (...
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    inventor, known as the "father of information theory" and credited with laying the foundations of the Information Age. Shannon was the first to describe...
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  • Organizational Information Theory (OIT) is a communication theory, developed by Karl Weick, offering systemic insight into the processing and exchange...
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  • might be thought of as gambling theory applied to the world around us. The myriad applications for logarithmic information measures tell us precisely how...
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  • This is a list of information theory topics. A Mathematical Theory of Communication algorithmic information theory arithmetic coding channel capacity Communication...
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  • Because the mathematical expressions for information theory developed by Claude Shannon and Ralph Hartley in the 1940s are similar to the mathematics of...
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  • The pragmatic theory of information is derived from Charles Sanders Peirce's general theory of signs and inquiry. Peirce explored a number of ideas about...
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    In probability theory and information theory, the mutual information (MI) of two random variables is a measure of the mutual dependence between the two...
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  • laws to be expressed, such as the constructor theory of information. The fundamental elements of the theory are tasks: the abstract specifications of transformations...
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    In information theory, the conditional entropy quantifies the amount of information needed to describe the outcome of a random variable Y {\displaystyle...
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  • Information processing theory is the approach to the study of cognitive development evolved out of the American experimental tradition in psychology....
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  • Information Manipulation Theory (abbreviated IMT) is a theory of deceptive discourse production, rooted in H. Paul Grice's theory of conversational implicature...
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  • on Information Theory is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Information Theory Society. It covers information theory and...
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  • Information field theory (IFT) is a Bayesian statistical field theory relating to signal reconstruction, cosmography, and other related areas. IFT summarizes...
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  • information theory, and brought it to immediate worldwide attention, was the publication of Claude E. Shannon's classic paper "A Mathematical Theory of...
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    interrelate the theory of the organism, thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory. This concept was expanded upon with the advent of information theory and subsequently...
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    In coding theory and information theory, a Z-channel or binary asymmetric channel is a communications channel used to model the behaviour of some data...
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    quantum computation, automata theory, information theory, cryptography, program semantics and verification, algorithmic game theory, machine learning, computational...
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  • or the expected value of the observed information. The role of the Fisher information in the asymptotic theory of maximum-likelihood estimation was emphasized...
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  • distance away can interpret the flags and reproduce the words sent. In information theory and computer science, a code is usually considered as an algorithm...
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