Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2014
Session Number:ICT2
Session:
Number:ICT2-3
From Information Theory to Information Practice
Sinan Sinanovic,
pp.-
Publication Date:2014-08-10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Modern society and science in particular are inundated with the data: due to wireless communications, megabits of data are riding electromagnetic waves around us each second; in genetics, gigabytes of DNA data are obtained at ever increasing rates; in finance, constant activity of stock market and foreign exchange provides a wealth of data; in medicine, huge amount of the data is collected from X-rays, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), EEG (electroencephalography) and ECG (electrocardiogram). One of the key questions common to all of the above areas is: Where is the meaning in all the data? More specifically: Can we somehow automate the process of extraction of the interesting information from the wealth of noisy data when a change, an anomaly or a new trend appears?