Bits, Bytes and Wires: Information and Compression

Talk
Roger Eastman
Loyola University, Baltimore
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Time: 
02.14.2017 11:00 to 12:00
Location: 

AVW 4172

We all know how to measure physical quantities like lengths, weights and volumes, but what about intangible quantities like knowledge and information? In this presentation we'll look at how to measure the information content of texts and images, and relate those measures to how much files can be compressed for digital storage and transmission. We'll also look at Huffman coding as an essential method of data encoding for compression.