Why Information Theory is Important - Computerphile - YouTube
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Zip files & error correction depend on information theory, Tim Muller takes us through how Claude Shannon's early Computer Science work is still essential today! https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at http://www.bradyharan.com we're going to be talking about information theory and a specific concept called shannon entropy named after claude shannon…
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