Coding, information theory and compression constitute the backbone of modern digital communications and data storage. Grounded in Shannon’s seminal work, information theory quantifies the ...

Is your code subject to the effects of entropy? Does it tend to devolve into a “big ball of mud?” According to experts “the most frequently deployed software architecture” is just a big ball of mud, a ...

Entropy is surely one of the most intriguing and misunderstood concepts in all of physics. The entropy of the universe must always increase – so says the second law of thermodynamics. It’s a law that ...