Information theory underpins modern digital communication by quantifying information and delineating the limits of data transmission. Among its most celebrated implementations are Low-Density ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s ...

The identities or bounds that relate information measures (e.g., the entropy and mutual information) and estimation measures (e.g., the minimum means square error ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...

We introduced the notion of “informavore,” or a consumer of information, in our previous post. We’d now like to introduce a distinction to provide more nuance to this notion, which we’ll explore in ...