Development of algorithms for the automated quantification of biological imaging data

Wen-Chieh and McKeith Pearson are graduate students working in the Aguilar Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University   Abstract: The initial ste...

Research Team Presentation - "Changes in Forest Communities of the Eastern United States"

Recorded May 25th, 2018 during the 2018 Introduction to Data Science & Interdisciplinary Research Team...

Research Team Presentation - "Towards Cyber-Physical Vetting in Critical Infrastructures"

Recorded May 25th, 2018 during the 2018 Introduction to Data Science & Interdisciplinary Research Team...

Research Team Presentation - "Improving Disaster Emergency Assistance Programs in the USA”

Recorded May 25th, 2018 during the 2018 Introduction to Data Science & Interdisciplinary Research Team...

Research Team Presentation - "The Polarization of Information on the Web"

Recorded May 25th, 2018 during the 2018 Introduction to Data Science & Interdisciplinary Research Team...

Remco van der Hofstad - The Structure of Complex Networks: Scale-Free and Small-World Random Graphs

Abstract: Many phenomena in the real world can be phrased in terms of networks. Examples include the World-Wide Web, social interactions and Internet, but also the interaction patterns betwee...

Aylin Yener - Information-Theoretic Security

A part of the 2016 Summer School held at Duke University Presented by Aylin Yener

Krishna Narayanan - The Peeling Decoder: Theory and Applications

A part of the 2016 Summer School held at Duke University Presented by: Krishna Narayanan

Natasha Devroye - The Interference Channel

A part of the 2016 Summer School held at Duke University Presented by: Natasha Devroye

Helmut Bölcskei: Padovani Lecturer - The Mathematics of Deep Learning

A part of the 2016 Summer School hosted at Duke University Presented by: Helmut...

René Vidal - Global Optimality in Matrix and Tensor Factorization, Deep Learning, and Beyond

Presented at the 2016 Summer School held at Duke University Presented by: René Vidal

Alcine & Hornbuckle - Designing and Securing a Weather Station to Increase Crop Production in Cameroon

Computer controlled weather stations are useful in the production of crops in developing countries such as Cameroon. It is essential to build a computer controlled weather station because it will increase the mappi...

Sergio Verdú - Teaching IT

Andrea Goldsmith - Technology Hurdles and Killer Apps en Route to the Wireless Future

Andrea Goldsmith - The Road Ahead for Wireless Technology: Dreams and Challenges

Stanford University's Andrea Goldsmith talks about the possible innovations and breakthroughs of a "wireless future" and the challenges that must be met i...

Micheal Luby - A Mathematical Theory of Distributed Storage

Abstract: We describe a natural and general model of distributed storage. To ensure that a message stored in the system remains recoverable as nodes fail and are replaced with new nodes, a repairer continuall...

Christopher Sims - Information Theory in Economics

Christopher Sims, Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University, discusses the application of information theory to economics.

Mainak Chowdhury - The Intersection of Science of Information and Clinical Care for Cancer and Rare Diseases

Cancer therapeutics have seen many success stories over the past few decades. However while some forms of cancer respond very well to treatment, a sizeable majority of cancers are not that responsive, contributing ...

Wojciech Szpankowski - Shannon Information Theory and Beyond

Presented as the innuagural Arden L. Bement Jr. Distinguished Lecture Professor and Center Director Wojciech Szpankowski, Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science, outlines the work of the Center for Science of Inf...

Paul Siegel - Constrained Codes for Multilevel Flash Memory

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Farooq Khan - Architecting Tb/s Wireless

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Information Theory: Academic and Industry Perspectives Panel Discussion

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Urbashi Mitra - Biological Communication Channels: Engineered and Natural

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Venkatesan Guruswami - List and Local Error-Correction

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Tom Marzetta - Massive MIMO and Beyond

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Diego Mesa - Introduction to Scientific Computing with IPython

As part of the 2015 Summer School: 8th Annual North American School of Information Theory NASIT

Stephen Boyd - Convex Optimization and Applications

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Todd Coleman - Mentoring and Success Panel Discussion

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Ivana Maric - Information Theoretic Concepts of 5G

Presented at the North American School of Information Theory 2015

Kayal Madhivanan and Swetha Ramadesikan - Quantitative Analysis of Biological Data

Abstract: In order to develop novel and more efficient therapeutic approaches we need to understand disease mechanisms, which in turn requires the collection and analysis of biologically-relevant information. Unfor...

Mark Daniel Ward - An Introduction to the Science of Information

Mark Daniel Ward - An Introduction to the Science of Information Recorded on April 5, 2012 for the Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association (WALLA...

Extracting Complex Trends in Gene Expression from Metabolite Data - A Cybernetic Approach

Since their inception nearly three decades ago, cybernetic models have been used to analyze the dynamic control of metabolism based off of goals relevant to the organisms functioning. In the case of single cellular...

Corey Schimpf - Women and Minorities in the Computing Fields: Precollege and College Years

The most recent graduation data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that in 2012 Computer Science fields had women earning 22% of the bachelor’s degrees awarded, Blacks at 10%, Latinos/Hispanic at ...

Ayse Saygin – Cognitive Neuroscience

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Tatyana Sharpee - Information-Theoretic Principles in Learning and Decision Making

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Takaki Komiyama – Imaging Neural Ensembles During Learning

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Robert Gray - Half Century Hindsights

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Todd Coleman - Information and Neuroscience

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Zhiying Wang - Coding for Information Storage

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

David Kleinfield – The Nature and Control of Blood Flow Through the Cortex

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Shankar Subramaniam – Systems Biology & Bioinformatics

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Pulkit Grover - Analyzing Info-flows in Engineered and Neuronal Circuits using "Energetic Information Theory"

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Tamara Berdyyeva – Neural Mechanisms & Analysis of Normal and Abnormal Behavior

Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer School

Ananth Grama – Computational Biology and Information

Recorded August 7, 2014 as part of the 2014 CSoI Summer School - UCSD Presented at the 2014 CSoI Summer Schoo...

Mikhail Tikhonov- Genetic Network Complexity: Weights Matter more than Topology

Mikhail Tikhonov's (Princeton University) interview regarding his poster presented at the 2013 North American School of Information The...

Wen-mei W. Hwu - Application of Accelerators and Parallel Computing to Sequencing Data

Recorded as part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Science of Information Day, April 11th, 2014. 

Steve Lumetta - Center on Computational Genomics

A talk about a developing center on computational genomics at UIUC, and advancements in genomics and interdisciplinary research. Recorded as part of the

Tsachy Weissman - Compression for Similarity Queries

I will talk about compression when the goal is to concisely represent sequences in a way that allows to determine whether they are similar to a given query sequence. The problem arises in an increasing variety of c...

Bin Yu - Modeling Visual cortex V4 in Naturalistic Conditions

The functional organization of cortex area V4 in the mammalian ventral visual pathway is far from being well understood. V4 plays an important role in the recognition of shapes and objects and in visual attention, ...

Lior Pacher - Sequencing Based Functional Genome

Sequence census methods couple high-throughput DNA sequencing to biochemical assays and are transforming standard functional genomics assays into powerful  genome-wide probes of biochemical activity. At th...

Micheal Luby - Media Delivery: A Personal Perspective

I will describe some work that I have been involved with over the years that is focused on media delivery and media streaming. The presentation in particular overviews the RaptorQ (IETF RFC 6330) and MPEG-DASH (ISO...

Graph Inference and Compression via Random Walks - Courtade

Apart of the 2012 All Hands Meeting

Frank DeVilbiss - Investigation on Metabolic Phenomena Using Information Theory

Thomas Courtade - A Fresh Look at Boolean Functions

Rui Ma - Information Theory and Neuroscience

center video STC 2013 conference

Encryption - Overview

Entropy and Data Compression - Overview

Main books referenced

Asymptotic Equipartition Property - Overview

Mathematical Theory of Communication - Overview

Probability Theory - Overview

Broad Overview

Pre-requisities for online course

Michelle Effros - Information Theory for Large Networks

Beginning with Shannon's small 2-node network from 1948, Professor Effros' tutorial looks at the capacities and challenges of large networks. Information theory offers small network solutions for a large network wo...

Emina Soljanin - Padovani Lecture - The Secret Lives of Codes: From Theory to Practice and Back

Dr. Sojanin, a Bell Labs Research Scientist, gave the 2013 Padovani Lecture at the North American School of Information Theory on t...

Jonathan Ponniah - A Clean Slate Approach to Security of Wireless Networks Part 2

Postdoctoral scholar Jonathan Ponniah continues part 2 of the talk on strategy of clean slate approach to wireless network security looking at details of the strategy and results. Professor PR Kumar gave

P.R. Kumar - A Clean Slate Approach to Security of Wireless Networks Part 1

Professor Kumar gives part 1 talk on strategy of clean slate approach to wireless network security. In Part 1, Dr. Kumar covers the conceptual notions and overarching problems with wireless security. Kumar's studen...

Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing and Information

Professor Aaronson provides a dynamic journey through the field of quantum mechanics and computing for information theorists. Presented at the

Mehmet Koyuturk - Complex Diseases and Information Theory

Professor Koyuturk gave a tutorial on complex diseases and the application of information theory to better understand complexity in biological systems. Presented at the

Abram Magner- Investigating Symmetries of Uniform Attachment Graphs

Abram Magner's interview regarding his poster presented at the 2013 North American School of Information Theory. Poster Co-...

Deck of Cards Example

Shannon's First Theorem Part 1

Calculating Entropy Practice Problem

Information Channels Part 4, Conditional & Joint Entropies

Information Channels Part 5, Joint Entropy & Mutual Information

Information Channels Part 8, Asymmetric Channels

Information Channels Part 1, Binary Symmetric Channels

Information Channels Part 2, Binary Symmetric Channels

Information Channels Part 3, Binary Symmetric Channel Example Problems

Information Channels Part 7, Mutual Information

Information Channels Part 6, Mutual Information

Calculating Entropy & Average Code Length Practice Problems

Playfair Cipher 1 Part 3

Strengthening Vigenere Ciphers Part 4

Public Key Cryptography Part 2, Discrete Logarithms and DiffieHellman Key Exchange

Public Key Cryptography Part 1, OneWay Functions and Discrete Logarithms

Vigenere Ciphers Part 2

The RSA Algorithm Under the Hood Part 3, Greatest Common Divisor and Fermat's Little Theorem

Cryptography Theory and Entropy Part 1

The RSA Algorithm Under the Hood Part 2, Prime Numbers, Euclidean Algorithm, & Greatest Common Divis

Cryptography Theory and Entropy Part 3

The RSA Algorithm Under the Hood Part 1, Prime Numbers, Euclidean Algorithm, & Greatest Common Divis

Cryptography Theory and Entropy Part 2

The RSA Algorithm Under the Hood Part 6

The RSA Algorithm Under the Hood Part 5

LempelZiv Coding Part 2

The RSA Algorithm Under the Hood Part 4

LempelZiv Coding Part 1

Universal Coding

Substitution Ciphers Part 1

Huffman Coding Part 3

Shannons First Theorem Part 2

Huffman Coding Part 1

Bits as a measure Part 3

The Kraft Inequality and Code Length Part 1

Bits as a Measure Part 2

Bits as a Measure Part 1

Huffman coding Part 2

Shannon's First Theorem Part 3

Nancy Lynch - Distributed Computing Theory for Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems

Center for Science of Information presents as part of the Prestige Lect...

Tom Courtade - A Fresh Look at Boolean Functions

Presented at the 2012 NSF Site Visit and All Hands Meeting

Tom Courtade - Graph Inference/Compression via Random Walks

Presented at the 2012 NSF Site Visit and All Hands Meeting

Frank DeVilbiss - Investigation on Metabolic Phenomena Using Information Theory

Presented at the 2012 NSF Site Visit and All Hands Meeting

Sheila Rosenburg Spotlight

Apart of the 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Hands-on Biozon Project

Presented at the 2012 Science of Information Summer School Unfortunately, presentation slides are not available for this vi...

Biology for Engineers Part 2 of 2

Presented as apart of the 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Biology for Engineers Part 1 of 2

Presented as apart of the 2012 Science of Information Summer School

TEDxTalk: Where Will the Chips of Tomorrow Take Us?

\"Electronic tattoos may sound like something invented for Star Trek, but Dr. Todd Coleman shows us they're real today. Coleman has developed band-aid like, wirelessly powered \"tattoo electronics,\" which can be u...

Probability Theory Part 4 Independent Events & Disjointness

Probability Theory Part 3 Sample Space & Outcomes Examples

Probability Theory Part 2 Probability Defined

Probability Theory Part 1 Events and Outcomes

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CSoI Faculty member Jack Gallant Speaking at 2012 Allen Institute for Brain Science Symposium

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) detects the location of functions in the brain better than any other method we have today. While localization is necessary, it is not sufficient for understanding how th...

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 5 - Kraft Inequality

Probability Theory Part 18 - Intro to Entropy

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 4 - Shannon's 1st Theorem

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 1 - Coding

Probability Theory Part 17 - Roulette and Expected Value of a Function of a Random Variable

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 2 - Entropy with Variance

Lempel Ziv 77 Part 1

Probability Theory Part 16 - Dice Example

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 3 - Huffman Coding

AEP Part 2

Probability Theory Part 15 - Expected Value of Random Variables

Lempel Ziv 77 Part 2 - C++ Program

Probability Theory Part 19 - Entropy of a Random Variable

Postdoctoral scholars and student interviews - Center for Science of Information

Interviews from Postdoctoral and PhD scholars involved with the Center for Science of Information, discussing the benefits of the Center and the challenges that they strive to identify and overcome through their in...

C++ Program - Application

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 9 - Information Theory Textbooks

AEP Part 1

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 8 - Mutual Information

Probability Theory Part 24 - Random Variables

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 7B - Conditional and Joint Entropy Part 2

Probability Theory Part 22 - Random Word Example

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 7A - Conditional and Joint Entropy Part 1

Probability Theory Part 23 - Discrete Value of Random Variables

Mathematical Theory of Communication Part 6 - Channels

Probability Theory Part 20 - Biased coin

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Probability Theory Part 14 - Conditional Mass

Asymptotic Equipartition Property Module

Pre-requisite: Calculus, Probability Theory Overview: This is an advanced module providing insight into understanding properties of outputs of samples from random variables. ...

Data Compression Module

Pre-requisite: Probability Theory and Mathematical Theory of Communication Overview: This module provides the basic ideas behind compression of data and decoding messages. Th...

Tomasz Imielinski - Association Rules: Twenty Years and Beyond

As part of the Prestige Lecture Series on Information Associatio...

Problem set Probability Theory Basic Notions Module

Probability Theory Part 13 - Random Variable Independence

Probability Theory Part 8 - Baye's Theorem

Probability Theory Part 12 - Joint Cumulative Distribution Function

Probability Theory Part 7 - Independence

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Probability Theory Part 6 - Conditional Probability

Probability Theory Part 11 - Cumulative Distribution Function

Probability Theory Part 10 - Probability Mass Function

Probability Theory Part 9B - Random Variables 2

Probability Theory Part 9A - Random Variables

Rui Ma Spotlight

Probability Theory Part 5B

Probability Theory Part 4

Probability Theory Part 5A

summer workshop interviews

Recorded during the 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Thomas Courtade - Lossy Compression for BigData: A First Step

Probability Theory Part 1

Probability Theory Part 2

Probability Theory Part 3

2012 Student Research Workshop Intros

Presented as apart of the 2012 student research workshop.

2012 Student Research Workshop Student & Post-Doc Outros

Presented as apart of the 2012 student research workshop.

Quantum Shannon Theory

Part of 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Sparse Problems in Bioinformatics

Part of 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Interactive Information Theory and Its Use in Brain-Machine Interfaces

Part of 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Information Theory: From Communications to DNA Sampling

Part of 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Reliable Communication Amid Uncertainty

Part of 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Backing Off From Infinity

Part of 2012 Science of Information Summer School

Lee Hood - System Approaches to Biology and Medicine and the emergence of proactive P4 medicine

Center for Science of Information Prestige Lecture Series presents Lee Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology Systems Biology Approaches to Biology and Disease and the Emergence of Proact...

Marcelo Weinberger - Information Theory in an Industrial Lab

Recorded at the 2012 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA 2012), San Diego, CA

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Introduction to the Center for Science of Information

Joachim Buhmann - Context Sensitive Information: Model Validation by Information Theory

Similar to the talk given January 2012 

Dr. Claudio Aguilar, Science of Information and Cell Biology

csoi-year-in-review-2011.mp4

HONR399 Class 31: RSA Example

HONR399 Class 30: RSA Algorithm

HONR399 Class 29: Prime Numbers, Euclidean Algorithm, Greatest Common Divisor

Panel: New Perspectives for Information Theory

ITW 2011 - Paraty, Brazil IEEE Information Theory Workshop Panel New Perspectives for Information Theory Chair :  Sergio Verdú Speakers: Venkat Anantharam, Giuseppe Caire, Max...

HONR399 Class 28: Special Guest Luciano Floridi

HONR399 Class 27: Diffie-Hellman Algorithm, Maple

HONR399 Class 26: Encryption, Public Keys, Modulus Operator

Student Spotlight: Bridging Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience

HONR399 Class 6: Floridi Ch. 7 (1 of 3)

HONR399 Class 6: Floridi Ch. 7 (3 of 3)

HONR399 Class 6: Floridi Ch. 7 (2 of 3)

Challenges in the Biology Front or How the Theory of Information Can Save Lives

Relying on examples from my own and other labs, I will discuss the challenges that modern biology faces today. Extraordinary technological advances in the field of biology impose an overwhelming pace of data productio...

Bioinformatics Series

In the first of the sequence of three lectures, I will provide a high level overview of biological processes and systems, and associated modeling techniques. In particular, I will describe sequence based modeling, seq...

Alon Orlitsky - Foreseeing the Unseen: Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets

Abstract: Many applications call for estimating probabilities of rare, even previously unseen, events. We outline the problem's theory, applications, and relation to works by Fisher, Shakespeare, L...

Brigitte Vallee - Information Theory: Models, Algorithms, Analysis

Every student of a basic algorithms course is taught that, on average, the complexity of Quicksort [or the path-length of a Binary Search Tree] is O(n log n), that of QuickSelect is O(n), and that of RadixSort is O...

Natasha Devroye - Fundamental Limits of Cognitive Networks

This is the video of the Prestige Lecture Series presentation event. Abstract:...

PR Kumar - Temporal Guarantees Over Wireless Networks

As we move towards cyberphysical systems, temporal considerations in information delivery will play an ever larger role. Timeliness of delivery of packets will be just as important as throughput or reliability. Acc...

Thomas Cover - The Natural Mathematics Arising in Information Theory and Investment

Optimizing the growth rate of investment is considered a controversial investment goal, perhaps because it is an asymptotic criterion or perhaps because its implementation requires maximizing the expected logarithm...

Madhu Sudan - Towards Universal Semantic Communication

Presented April 16th, 2007 as part of the Prestige Lecture Series

Nicholas Yannelis - Contracts Under Asymmetric Information

Presented February 12, 2007 as part of the Prestige Lecture Series

Andrew Barron - The Interplay of Information Theory, Probability and Statistics

Presented on Feb. 26th, 2007 as part of the Prestige Lecture Series

Ben Schumacher - What is Information? Insights from Quantum Physics

The rise of quantum information science -- including quantum communication theory, quantum cryptography, and quantum computation -- has forced us to re-examine some of our basic ideas about information. In what sen...

Jehoshua Bruck - The Logic of Biological Networks

Motivated by the intriguing functionality of gene regulatory networks we study chemical reactions (biological) circuits. We observe that those circuits are vastly different when compared to existing computing struc...

Andrea Goldsmith - To Infinity and Beyond: New Frontiers in Wireless Information Theory

Andrea Goldsmith's plenary talk at ISIT 2014, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 29 - July 4 2014, Honolulu Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, USA.   

Sergio Verdu - Information Theory Today

Presented Oct. 2nd, 2006 as part of the Prestige Lecture Series

Ananth Grama - Algorithms for Sequence Analysis

In the second of the three-part series of lectures, I will present algorithms for sequence analysis. I will start with a brief description of sequence alignment, multiple alignment, and motif-finding algorithms. I ...