Recursive Lossless Compression of Random Data Now a Reality

[r3t]

Call me a cynic, but claims like this have been made before and have always turned out to be fake. I wouldn't hold my breath over this...

[Doombrain]

Recursive Lossless Compression of Random Data Now a Reality

[duffman91]

Therefore, if one file has gone through four passes to become a single 0 and another file has gone through five passes to become the same , by decoding the single 0 four times, it will be restored to the original file of 16 0s and the other five times to its original file of 32 0s, respectively, thus you have two completely different files decoded from the same single 0!

Sounds like they rediscovered deduplication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication. Something EMC already does at the block level, which makes more sense. With an increasing level of mobile computers with slower processors, I think these guys are a decade too late.

Maybe I'm a skeptic, but computer science research from China and India goes to my bullshit folder.

[DTS]

Maybe I'm a skeptic, but computer science research from China and India goes to my bullshit folder.

The guy did his studying in Australia and made the system for typing any one of 20,000 Chinese characters with a maximum of four keystrokes.

From the Inventor's Profile page:

In 1999, after 15 years of dedicated work, Dr Wong produced and patented a Chinese computer keyboard (US Patent no. US 6,604,878 B1) that can input any of the 20,000 Chinese characters, both simplified and traditional, with a maximum of four keystrokes. This keyboard is vastly superior to any Chinese keyboard currently on the market. Using the underlying technology developed in the Chinese keyboard, Dr Wong has also developed the following all of which are protected by world-wide patent.

Ten-keyed keypad (English) - an input system (designed for use in mobile phones) which enables the user to reduce the number of keystrokes needed for a word by an average of two-thirds without resorting to prediction, memorization or complicated operational rules. All input is done visually.

Dr Wong has used the software that drives this keyboard as the basis for some exciting other forms of technology culminating in development and patenting of two major breakthroughs in compression of digital data.

This guy is no bulshit, he knows how to make things.

[Deathshroud]

Maybe I'm a skeptic, but computer science research from China and India goes to my bullshit folder.

My feelings exactly.

EDIT: Try googling "ACM" (Association for Computing Machinery) plus any of the names of people or businesses from this article, and you'll probably get nothing. If this is what it seems, then it should at least come from a credible source or be subject to peer review.

[^misantropia^]

Can't speak for India but China has lots of brilliant CS researchers. Lots of interesting crypto research comes out of China, for example.

EDIT: That's not to say that this particular claim seems very credible.

[seremtan]

i'd be surprised if china weren't investing in crypto. it's pretty much the key to the future economy/security etc

[Tsakali]

lol I bet they would... takes one to stop one