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Podcast: Gresham College Lectures
Episode: It from Bit: The Science of Information
Description: Physicist John Wheeler asked the famous 'It from bit?' question: what if at its heart the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits? If this is true, it leads us to new insights in compression, machine learning, artificial intelligence and maybe even the universe and life itself.A lecture by Professor Richard Harvey, IT Livery Company Professor of IT 23 October 2018The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/it-from-bit-science-of-information...