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Information and Cognition Research Group
(InfoCog)

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Members

Research topics

  • Complexity of information. The complexity of information is measured according to Shannon (as its length in bits) or according to Kolmogorov (as the length in bits of the shortest representation of this information — for example, when this information is compressed by a data compression program). Studying the complexity of information is the important threshold in the modern Computer Science.
  • Models of cognition. The comparison between how human's and computer's memory and `mind' are organised is important both for practical purposes (e.g. for developing user's interfaces) and for solving fundamental philosophical questions.

Applications

  • User interface design
  • Using computers in education
  • Computability and provability
  • Data compression

Activities and Publications

  • Ray's paper on matrices

Collaboration

  • Cambridge University
  • University College London (Prof Angela Sasse) in research of user interface
  • Royal Holloway (Dr Yuri Kalnishkan) in research of complexity of information