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SUMMARY:Semantic and Pragmatic Communications - Prof. Deniz Gunduz\, Imper
 ial College London
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CONTACT:Prof. Ramji Venkataramanan
DESCRIPTION:Conventional communication systems have been designed to relia
 bly convey sequences of bits over a noisy communication channel. However\,
  many emerging applications\, from autonomous driving\, to healthcare and 
 Internet of things\, involve connecting machines with humans and other mac
 hines\, where the goal is often not to reconstruct the underlying message\
 , but to enable the receiver to make the right inference or to take the ri
 ght action at the right time and context. I will talk about a new set of p
 erformance requirements and design constraints imposed on modern communica
 tion systems by these emerging applications\, and present the results of o
 ur recent efforts in designing semantic and pragmatic communication system
 s bringing together ideas and tools from classical information and coding 
 theory with modern machine learning algorithms.
LOCATION:MR5\, CMS Pavilion A
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