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

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

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

2008 ISIT Plenary Lecture From Two to Infinity: Information Theory and Statistics for Large Alphabets Professor Alon Orlitsky University of…

2018 ISIT Plenary Talk -- Vail, CO Guidance from Information Theory – an engineering perspective Gottfried Ungerboeck  

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

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

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

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 IEEE Information Theory Society presents an overview of Adi Shamir's 1979 paper on secret sharing. This is part of our series on the greatest…

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