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- Follow-up events to the I2Lab workshops are planned in 2007.
- Frontiers of Quantum and Biological Information Processing
Quantum and biological information processing are emerging fields which show great promise. It is expected that they will allow
us to overcome existing limitations of classical information processing systems in terms of speed, computational power, and energy consumption.
While no quantum processing systems in nature are yet known, biological information processing is a fact of life as most living cells process some form of
information efficiently. The interest in quantum information processing was ignited by theoretical work in quantum physics, while recent advances in biophysics,
biochemistry, and bioengineering have given us confidence that we will be able to understand and control biological information processing in the near future.
- Information Beyond Shannon
The notion and theory of Information introduced by Claude Shannon's in 1948 have served as the backbone
to a now classical paradigm of digital communication. Unfortunately, that formalization of Information
hardly captures all of the needed nuances, and the accompanying theory has not lent itself to non-trivial
applications outside the native context. Information is still the distinctive mark and arguably the basic
commodity of our era, so that the need for deeper reflection and study is intensifying.
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