Posts Tagged: electrical engineering

From pulsars to particles: What can engineers do with big data?

The information available today, between books, the Internet and more, amounts to approximately 1,200 exabytes – that’s 1,200 billion gigabytes – of data. If all of that were stored on CDs, the discs would form five stacks, each tall enough…

What state secrets is your house keeping?

Wondering why your hydro bill is so high this month? There is a chance your neighbours are offloading some of their consumption on to you, or even monitoring your usage to learn about your daily habits. These are concerns that…

Machine learning, genetics and doubt: Big ideas from NASIT’14

Professor En-hui Yang asked information theorists from across the world to doubt absolutely everything — except, of course, their decision to study information theory (IT). Yang spoke at the IEEE North American School for Information Theory (NASIT’14), hosted this month…
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