Conveners
From Information to AI: More Than 100 Years of Communication and Computation
- Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University)
Negli anni 1894-1896 Marconi mise a punto e brevettò un sistema per la trasmissione senza fili di segnali telegrafici (Wireless Telegraphy), e continuò a sviluppare l'invenzione risolvendo i diversi problemi tecnici che man mano si ponevano, brevettando le proprie soluzioni e/o integrando nel suo sistema componenti inventate e brevettate da altri.
In seguito, muovendo da problemi di interesse...
Artificial intelligence (AI) emerged from the convergence of several ideas and theories developed over a significant period in the first half of the twentieth century. Among these, information theory holds a prominent place, achieving its complete formulation with Claude Shannon in the 1940s. Shannon is considered one of the founding fathers of AI, being a key contributor to the 1956 Dartmouth...
A sincere friendship began between the Italian-American Robert Fano and Claude Shannon around a common theory, which had as its object Information as a representation of thought and a measurable object of communication. Shannon published his A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948, while Fano published The Transmission of Information a few months later in 1949.
Fano and Shannon...
The talk aims to analyse the definition of information by comparing the crucial definitions formulated by Shannon and Von Neumann and highlighting some of their criticalities.
Statistical mathematics poses the basis of the understanding of information in the form of Shannon’s proposal in A Mathematical Theory of Communication. In this work, information is explained by the concept...
