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XLIV National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy

17–20 Sept 2024
Firenze
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From Information to AI: More Than 100 Years of Communication and Computation

18 Sept 2024, 08:30
Firenze

Firenze

Largo Enrico Fermi, 2-5

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From Information to AI: More Than 100 Years of Communication and Computation

  • Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University)

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  1. 73. Il ‘sistema Marconi’ e il suo sviluppo, fra scienza, società e politica
    Paoloni, Giovanni (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Dip.to di lettere e culture moderne)
    18/09/2024, 09:00
    SISFA 2024
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    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...

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  2. 64. Information Transmission as Artificial Intelligence
    Bianchini, Francesco
    18/09/2024, 09:30
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    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...

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  3. 57. The art of communicating: from the Theory of Information Transmission to the Shannon-Fano Code
    Campanile, Benedetta (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro)
    18/09/2024, 10:00
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    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...

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  4. 3. From Shannon to Von Neumann: A partial understanding of Information
    Covoni, Niccolò (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo BO - Università della Svizzera Italiana)
    18/09/2024, 10:20
    SISFA 2024

    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...

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