====  What is IPG About?  ====
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The **information processing group** is concerned with fundamental issues in the area of communications, in particular coding and information theory. Information theory establishes the limits of communications -- what is achievable and what is not. Coding theory tries to devise low complexity schemes that approach these limits. 

To say it the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprjmoSMJ-o|Monty Python ]]way: Our chief weapon is probability ... probability and abstract algebra ... abstract algebra and probability.... Our **two** weapons are abstract algrebra and probability ... and optimization .... Our **three** weapons are abstract algebra, probability, and optimization ... and an almost fanatical devotion to methods of statistical physics ...
Our **four** ... no ... **Amongst** our weapons .... Amongst our weaponry ... are such elements as abstract algebra, probability ...
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