Dear Colleague,
This is to remind you of the following ACM event.
Once again, sorry for the delayed email.
- Durgesh, for ACM Mumbai
ACM Seminar
Friday, June 29, 2001 - 6:30 p.m.
Title: Data Compression
Speaker: Sayyed S. A. A., NCST
Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu
Abstract:Data compression techniques are applied to files to reduce their
size, which in turn increases the capacity of data storage and speeds up
data transmission. Data compression draws heavily from information theory,
which deals with the probability of some symbol appearing in the
input. For totally random sources, each symbol is equally likely, but
random sources are uncompressible. This means that the more probable an
event, the less information it contains. Data compression techniques also
work on this principle. If we look at real-world files, we find a lot of
redundant data in them. Data compression exploits this redundancy to its
advantage. I intend to give an overview of data compression
About the Speaker: Mr Sayyed is a consultant in the Database and Knowledge
Engineering division at NCST Juhu. His interests include Databases,
compression and encryption.
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Durgesh D Rao (DDR) | Email: durgesh(a)ncst.ernet.in
Research Scientist, KBCS Division | Ph: 6201606x372(w), 7563437(r)
National Centre for Software Technology | Fax: +91-22-6210139
Gulmohar Rd 9, Juhu, Mumbai 400049, INDIA.| Web:
www.ncst.ernet.in/~durgesh
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