About the author:

Jacques Guy studied Chinese, Japanese and Tahitian at the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Australian National University in Canberra on a then unknown language of Espiritu Santo. Having long redirected his interests to computer science and statistics he has now been for more than ten years a senior scientist in artifical intelligence with the Research Laboratories of Telstra (TELecom auSTRAlia). His main lines of interest are the processing and analysis of raw data considered as a corpus of texts of unknown meaning in an unknown language, and the quantitative properties of information and its transmission.