People

Info Theory People

  • Constantino Tsallis: developed the q-entropy. Here’s a quick historical overview.
  • Shun-ichi Amari: leading light in information geometry. See for example, his book Methods of Information Geometry.
  • Cosma Shalizi: has some interesting thoughts on modeling.
  • David Corfield: statistical learning theory. He has some very interesting posts on his blog.
  • IJ Taneja: information measures and statistics, focusing primarily on inequalities.
  • Ken Norwich: neuroscientist who asserts that the nervous system processes uncertainty. His book is interesting; it even uses the phrase “potential information”.
  • Francis Heylighen: philosopher interested in information evolution.
  • Tom Schneider: sequence logos…

    Data Mining People

  • Padhraic Smyth: probabilistic clustering
  • Max Chickering: probabilistic clustering
  • WEKA: open-source data mining project
  • Andrew Moore: statistical data mining, formerly of CMU, now at Google.
  • Sam Roweis: statistical machine learning, U. Toronto
  • Ran El-Yaniv: statistical machine learning, Technion

    Colloquia

  • Handbook on the Philosophy of Information: this is linked to a colloquium of people working in the field. Definitely worth checking out.
  • SEARCH AND COMMUNICATION COMPLEXITY
    INFORMATION THEORY IN MATHEMATICS
  • People in logic programming for modeling

    Possible contacts

  • Alan Schwartz: suggested as a polymath with wide interests, by Saul.
  • John Baez: mathematical physicist and wide-ranging intellect. Apparently his work focuses on group theory and category theory.
  • Wing Wong: expressed an interest in reading my potential information writeup. I should follow up with him.

    Possible contacts at UCLA

  • Ker-chau Li: has research focus on high-dimensional analysis and dimensional reduction. Oops, now he’s in Taiwan to head an institute, not clear he’s coming back…
  • It’s pretty clear that Stott is not interested in probability / info theory aspects…
  • Yingnian Wu:Wing suggested he’d be interested in ideas like potential information…

    Possible math tutors at UCLA

  • Cau Duong Le: group theory

    Newsgroups

  • Bio-info: unfortunately, this seems to be dead. Hardly any postings except ads for conferences and journals.