Gillat Kol: Interactive Information Theory

Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Refreshments: 
Light Refreshments at 3:50pm
Location: 
G575
Speaker: 
Gillat Kol
Abstract:  In a profoundly influential 1948 paper, Claude Shannon introduced
information theory and used it to study one-way data transmission problems
over different channels, both noisy and noiseless. That paper initiated the
study of error correcting codes and data compression, two concepts that are
especially relevant today with the rise of the internet and data-intensive
applications.

In the last decades, interactive communication protocols are used and
studied extensively, raising the fundamental question: To what extent can
Shannon's results be generalized to the interactive setting, where parties
engage in an interactive communication protocol? In this talk we will focus
on the interactive analog of data compression in an attempt to answer the
above question.