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  • These are articles written by CSoI staff or suggested by CSoI faculty because they highlight the Science of Information in some way.

  • Training Students Concurrently in Data Science and Team Science: Results and Lessons Learned from Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Student-led Research Teams 2012-2018

    Posted: Monday, July 1, 2019

    Summary: Our engaged learning model of training provides diverse students with immediately useful data science skills, while learning to work in interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research ...

  • Frontiers of Science of Information: Shannon Meets Turing

    Posted: Wednesday, January 24, 2018

    The authors’ vision for a Science of Information integrates key elements of Shannon and...

  • EEG Resolution and Beyond: Praveen Venkatesh Graduate Profile

    Posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2017

    by Gregory Nahlik Praveen Venkatesh, a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has been w...

  • Undergrad Profile: Elizabeth Tigner

    Posted: Friday, October 27, 2017

    by Gregory Nahlik Part-time undergraduate researcher and president of Purdue’s Outing Club, Elizabeth Tigner is combining computer science with statistics and social sciences in her research. Although Eli...

  • Meet the Authors of a Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

    Posted: Thursday, July 6, 2017

    "The spirit of Claude Shannon looms large over IEEE Spectrum, and indeed the entire modern world. His 1937 demonstration that Boolean logic and algebra could be impl...

  • How to Grow Researchers: A Fresh Perspective on Graduate Student Collaboration

    Posted: Wednesday, March 1, 2017

    Luke Redington writes a short article on Center for Science of Information Education Director Brent Ladd and his understanding of graduate students and how he creates opportunities and environments to help them do ...

  • CSoI Participants Explore Boundaries of EEG Imaging

    Posted: Friday, February 17, 2017

    In the phys.org article "Innovation in brain imaging", CSoI participants Pulkit Grover and Praveen Venkatesh are highlighted for their work "

  • Purdue Profiles: David Gleich

    Posted: Thursday, January 12, 2017

    Excerpt: Somehow, David Gleich makes the world of algebra, algorithms and data sound like a lot of fun. A complete blast. That's completely because while he's doing work that would fog the minds of ...

  • Model sheds light on purpose of inhibitory neurons

    Posted: Monday, January 9, 2017

    Excerpt: Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed light on the biological ro...

  • Stanford Researchers Send Messages Using Household Chemicals

    Posted: Monday, December 5, 2016

    "Researchers have built a machine that sends messages using common chemicals. Among many potential applications, this system could relay secret messages or allow tiny devices to communicate inside the human body."

  • Relatively Simple Quantum Computers Could Be Much More Powerful Than Previously Realized

    Posted: Friday, November 18, 2016

    "Quantum computers promise huge speedups on some computational problems because they harness a strange physical property called entanglement, in which the physical state of one tiny particle depends on measurements...

  • MRI research: Listen to more podcasts—they're good for your brain

    Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2016

    "Listening to podcasts can do more than provide you with entertainment or information, according to a new study that says listening to them can stimulate activity across the brain."

  • Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: How It Fits into the Statistics Living Learning Community at Purdue

    Posted: Friday, October 21, 2016

  • People of ACM - P.R. Kumar

    Posted: Tuesday, October 4, 2016

    An interview with CSoI founding member, University Distinguished Professor and College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University.

  • How DNA could store all the world’s data

    Posted: Wednesday, August 31, 2016

    "Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already."

  • Magic is in the Airwaves: An Interview with Andrea Goldsmith

    Posted: Monday, May 16, 2016

    If anyone has a crystal ball in which to see the future of wireless communications, it is Professor Andrea Goldsmith. In this interview, she mapped a future in which magic will happen everyday. Highways will monito...

  • Shor's Algorithm is Implemented Using Five Trapped Ions

    Posted: Friday, March 4, 2016

    "A quantum computer made of five trapped ions has been used by physicists in Austria and the US to implement Shor's factoring algorithm. While the system performed the trivial task of factoring the number 15, the r...

  • When Cryptographers Disagree

    Posted: Thursday, March 3, 2016

    "Six of the world’s leading cryptography experts sat down this week to explore the most pressing issues in security. They took up topics ranging from whether Apple should facilitate the FBI’s access to a known ...

  • Science of Information Summer School

    Posted: Friday, July 31, 2015

    White paper on the history and results of the Center's summer school.

  • The Sequence of Things to Come: An Interview with Wojciech Szpankowski about the Future of Information Science

    Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2014

    Computers baffle me. For questions large and small—from how to rid my screen of yet another pop-up ad to whether the advent of Heartbleed means I might as well tweet all my financial data—I must ask others. Whe...

  • Postdoc Spotlight: Rui Ma

    Posted: Wednesday, June 12, 2013

    [Rui; pronounced “Ray”]: My name is Rui Ma, I graduated from University of Illinois with a PhD in Neuroscience. My field was neurophysiology at the same time I got a master degree in applied mathematics. The ma...

  • Serving Women with a Purposeful Vision

    Posted: Wednesday, April 3, 2013

    For the March 2013 issue of IEEE Computer Special issue on Gender Diversity in Computing

  • Postdoc Spotlight: Sheila Rosenberg

    Posted: Thursday, March 7, 2013

    We sat down with Sheila Rosenberg during a break in the student-postdoc research workshop that took place in July 2012. This is what she had to say about her interactions with the Center. My name is Shelia ...

  • Postdoc Spotlight: Pulkit Grover

    Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012

    We sat down with Pulkit Grover during a break in the student-postdoc research workshop that took place in July 2012. Pulkit was a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford during the time of this interview. He is now an As...

  • Postdoc Spotlight: Tom Courtade

    Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2012

    So certainly, I guess, one of the challenges is bringing together these people from various backgrounds, who speak, you know, different languages almost, with different terminology and everything. but I think the c...

  • A to Z Challenge 2012: Q is for Quantum Theology and Renaissance Woman Michelle Francl-Donnay

    Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

    Except from blog: "I met Michelle Francl-Donnay, writer of Quantum Theology,  in 2008, when she came to one of our craft shows.  She was my first “from blog to real life” encounter.  Michelle found S...

  • Brain imaging: fMRI 2.0

    Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    Functional magnetic resonance imaging is growing from showy adolescence into a workhorse of brain imaging.

  • Beyond Shannon...Legacy

    Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    Information permeates everything: from electrochemical information exchanged in networks of neurons, to biological information stored, and processed in living cells, to business information, etc.

  • Can Wi-Fi and Mi-Fi get along?

    Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    "Proliferation of the mobile Wi-Fi gadgets spotted in Austin in public and in the workplace comprise a trend called “BYOD” — Bring Your Own Device. The term has special significance for conferences like SXSW....

  • USC Viterbi Lecture Celebrates Information Theory

    Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    In 1948, an American researcher almost singlehandedly laid the foundation for computers, cell phones, compact discs, the Internet, interplanetary communications and most other aspects of what we call the Informatio...

  • In UC Berkeley Lab, Mind-Reading is Real

    Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    The latest episode of  “Prime: Cuts” could easily be the premise of a Hollywood science fiction movie. Except this science is real, and it’s happening at UC Berkele...

  • Controversial quantum computer beats factoring record

    Posted: Monday, April 16, 2012

    "Is this a record for a quantum computer? A group of physicists in China have used a process called adiabatic computing to find the prime factors of the number 143, beating the previous record for a quantum comput...

  • Quantum computing: Is it possible, and should you care?

    Posted: Monday, April 16, 2012

    "What is a quantum computer and when can I have one? It makes use of all that "spooky" quantum stuff and vastly increases computing power, right? And they'll be under every desk when scientists finally tame the spo...

  • Beyond Shannon...legacy by Antonio Manzalini

    Posted: Monday, March 26, 2012

    Information permeates everything: from electrochemical information exchanged in networks of neurons, to biological information stored, and processed in living cells, to business information, etc. Our curren...

  • Student Spotlight: Dan Zhang

    Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

    Give us your background as a person and a student and how you eventually came to work on your Ph.D….what sticks out in your mind as big influences or important events that got you to this point?

  • Student Spotlight: Oluwaseun Ademuwagun

    Posted: Monday, February 13, 2012

    Project: Predicting Marked Code-switching in African Languages Give us a little bit of your background as a person and a student and how you eventually came to work on your undergraduate in this f...

  • Quantitative Approach to Information Processing - U.S. News & World Report

    Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011

    "Center (CSoI) is defining core principles of multi-disciplinary information transfer"

  • Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing Promises New Insights - NYTimes.com

    Posted: Monday, December 5, 2011

    "You may want to read an interesting article by Scott Aaronson in today's NYT." In fact, the whole science section of NYT is devoted to "The Future of Computing": http://www.nytimes.com...

  • Nobel Winners in Economics: The Reluctant Celebrities - NYtimes.com

    Posted: Sunday, December 4, 2011

    "Here's a very interesting article from today's NY Times on Chris Sims and Thomas Sargent."

  • DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data - NYTimes.com

    Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011

    Sergio Verdú comments "We are going to have to come up with really clever ways to throw away data."

  • Student Spotlight: Arpita Sen

    Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2011

    I joined Claudio Aguilar’s lab here at Purdue University. He has two different systems that he works on simultaneously: cell biology with yeast and cell biology with mammals. So basically, yeast is a very good sy...

  • Interdisciplinary Computing Blog: The Wireless Car Considered

    Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2011

    The result of interviews with Deepak Kumar, "This is P. R. Kumar's work being presented in lay person term...

  • Computer Experts Building 1830s Babbage Analytical Engine - NYtimes.com

    Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2011

    Professor Mark Daniel Ward comments \"This article is relevant to the history of the fundamentals of computing.\"

  • Reading the brain: Mind-googling

    Posted: Sunday, November 6, 2011

    "It is now possible to scan someone's brain and get a reasonable idea of what is going on through his mind." Wojciech Szpankowski recommended ...

  • Biology 2.0

    Posted: Wednesday, September 28, 2011

    "A decade after the human-genome project, writes Geoffrey Carr (interviewed here), biological science is poised on the edge of something wonderful" Dr. Gill Bejerano shared an article that he says may ...

  • Student Spotlight: Marianne Catanho

    Posted: Wednesday, September 28, 2011

    "Bridging Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience" Here in my lab at the University of Illinois, in cooperation with Todd Coleman and Rhanor Gilette, who are my advisors, we look into bridging neuroscienc...

  • Book Review: The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

    Posted: Monday, September 26, 2011

      Shared here with permission by the author.  

  • There's a GAP in the ENTH domain

    Posted: Sunday, September 11, 2011

    A commentary by Brigitte Ritter and Peter S. McPherson. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), March 14, 2006, vol. 103, no. 11.  ...

  • Can Mobile Phone Networks Be Improved to Better Cope with Emergencies?

    Posted: Friday, August 26, 2011

    Andrea Goldsmith was interviewed for this article in Scientific American "about why all the cell phones stopped working when the earthquake hit NYC."

  • Grand Challenge for the Long Term

    Posted: Thursday, June 2, 2011

    A modern study of information must take into account the fact that information is distributed among many agents at different locations. Agents can communicate among themselves, subject to a variety of different pos...

  • Seeing the Natural World With a Physicist's Lens

    Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011

    "the basic building blocks of human eyesight turn out to be practically perfect. Scientists have learned that the fundamental units of vision, the photoreceptor cells that carpet the retinal tissue of the eye and r...

  • What Is I.B.M.'s Watson?

    Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011

    "For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocuti...

  • The Data Deluge: Businesses, governments and society are only starting to tap its vast potential, from "The Economist"

    Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011

  • Growing up digital - Wired for distraction - from "The New York Times"

    Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011

  • A Fight to Win the Future: Computers vs. Humans

    Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011

    part of the “Smarter than you think series” published in the New York Times.

  • Keynote by Robert Gallager at the IEEE Information Theory Society 2009 School of IT

    Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011

  • Fifty Years of Shannon Theory, by Sergio Verdu

    Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2011

  • An Exploratory Data Analysis Method to Reveal Modular Latent Structures in High-Throughput Data

    Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010

    by Tianwei Yu Background: Modular structures are ubiquitous across various types of biological networks. The study of network modularity can help reveal regulatory mechanisms in syste...

  • Community Structure in Time-Dependent, Multiscale, and Multiplex Networks

    Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010

    Peter J. Mucha, Thomas Richardson, Kevin Macon, Mason A. Porter and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract: Network science is an interdisciplinary endeavor, with methods and applications drawn f...

  • Rough Set Soft Computing Cancer Classification and Network: One Stone, Two Birds

    Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010

    by Yue Zhang Gene expression profiling provides tremendous information to help unravel the complexity of cancer. The selection of the most informative genes from huge noise for cancer classification ha...

  • Comparison of Statistical and Optimization-based Methods for Data-Driven Network Reconstruction of Biochemical Systems

    Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010

    Data-driven reconstruction of biological networks is a crucial step towards making sense of large volumes of biological data. While several methods have been developed recently for reconstruction of the networks, n...

  • An Efficient Nonlinear Programming Strategy for PCA Models with Incomplete Data Sets

    Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010

    Processing plants can produce large amounts of data that process engineers use for analysis, monitoring, or control. Principal component analysis (PCA) is well suited to analyze large amounts of (possibly) correlat...

  • A Scaling Normalization Method for Differential Expression Analysis of RNA-seq Data

    Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010

    The fine detail by sequencing-based transcriptome surveys suggests that RNA-seq is likely to become the platform of choice for interrogating steady state RNA. In order to discover biologically important changes in ...

  • Intersection of Information Theory with Other Disciplines

    Posted: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

    Ideas discussed during meeting held on Sept 28, 2010 at UIUC (Allerton Workshop) Contributed by Wojciech Szpankowski.


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