The Science of Information : From Language to Black Holes

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Call Number: DVD 003.54 Sc Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Lectures.
Instructional/educational program.
"24 lectures/30 minutes per lecture."
Disc 1: 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 -- Disc 2: Noise and channel capacity -- Error-correcting codes -- Signals and bandwidth -- Cryptography and key entropy -- Cryptanalysis and unraveling the enigma -- Unbreakable codes and public keys -- disc 3: 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 -- disc 4: 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.
Lecturer, Professor Benjamin Schumacher.
DVD; NTSC; full screen presentation.

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