Conference on "Entropy and redundancy: from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the compression of files" by Professor David Juher from the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Girona. Thursday 19 April Professor David Juher from the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Girona will present the conference:
 
"Entropy and redundancy: from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the compression of files"

The conference will be held in the Joan Pelechano Auditorium at the University of Valencia School of Engineering at 10:00 Thursday, 19 April.
 
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Deciphering writing from ancient civilizations is a top intellectual challenge that mathematicians, linguists, archaeologists, and historians have met in the case of Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphics. However, inscriptions from Easter Island, the Phaistos disk, the Etruscan language or the Iberian writings are impregnable mysteries still today.
 
We will review the successes and failures that scientists have experienced in deciphering writing and we will see how to quantify features of natural language (entropy, redundancy) that can help us in this task. We will end this historical journey in the twenty-first century, seeing the way these concepts teach us to optimally encode digital information.
 
David Juher received his PhD in Mathematics by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Girona since 1995. His research field includes discreet dynamic systems and complex networks. He actively gives conferences and teaches courses. He is the author of the book L'art de la comunicació secreta: el llenguatge de la Criptografia (Barcelona: Llibres de l’Índex, 2004).

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