[DMANET] Announcement: First IBM Research Workshop on the Informational Lens, A Virtual Conference (Sept 29-Oct 2, 2020)

September 29 to October 2, 2020

First IBM Research Workshop on the Informational Lens,
A Virtual Conference

https://sites.google.com/view/informational-lens-workshop-1/home

A four-day summit of talks, Q/A and panel discussions

The "information century" was launched by Turing's 1936 invention of a
hardware-independent notion of computing, a "universal computer" that
could be programmed to simulate any other computer; and by Shannon's 1948
discovery of a mathematical theory of communications independent of their
physical form and even their meaning.
Arguably, we are today in the midst of another information revolution,
with the advent of neurons and qubits as new representation and processing
elements for information. These advances, together with the exponential
growth in memory and speed of conventional computing, have made it
hazardous to conjecture any informational task at which humans will not be
soon bested by computers.
Viewing the world through an informational lens, and understanding
constraints and tradeoffs such as energy and parallelism versus
reliability and speed, will have profound consequences throughout
technology and science. This includes not only mathematics and the natural
sciences like physics and biology, but also social sciences such as
psychology and linguistics. We aim to bring together leading researchers
in science and technology from across the globe to discuss ideas and
future research directions through the informational lens.
Confirmed Speakers:
Scott Aaronson
Yuliy Baryshnikov
Charles Bennett
Isaac Chuang
Petros Drineas
Nicolas Gisin
Aram Harrow
Alexander Holevo
Gil Kalai
Michael Mahoney
Ilya Nemenman
Christos Papadimitriou
Sandu Popescu
Chris Sims
Susanne Still
Madhu Sudan
Wojciech Szpankowski
Naftali Tishby
Leslie Valiant
David Wolpert
Mary Wootters
Lydia Zakynthinou
Doron Zeilberger



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