The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes

The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes

Series from 2015

Series from 2015

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Genres: Special Interest

The science of information is the most influential, yet perhaps least appreciated field in science today. Never before have we been able to acquire, record, communicate, and use information in so many different forms.

This revolution goes far beyond the limitless content that fills our lives, because information also underlies our understanding of ourselves, the natural world, and the universe.

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The Transformability of Information

Computation and Logic Gates

Measuring Information

Entropy and the Average Surprise

Data Compression and Prefix-Free Codes

Encoding Images and Sounds

Noise and Channel Capacity

Error-Correcting Codes

Signals and Bandwidth

Cryptography and Key Entropy

Cryptanalysis and Unraveling the Enigma

Unbreakable Codes and Public Keys

What Genetic Information Can Do

Life’s Origins and DNA Computing

Neural Codes in the Brain

Entropy and Microstate Information

Erasure Cost and Reversible Computing

Horse Races and Stock Markets

Turing Machines and Algorithmic Information

Uncomputable Functions and Incompleteness

Qubits and Quantum Information

Quantum Cryptography via Entanglement

It from Bit: Physics from Information

The Meaning of Information