The Emerging Autosophy Internet

Authors: Klaus Holtz, Eric Holtz.

Published / Presented at: SSGRR 2002s – International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, and Medicine on the Internet. Telecom Italia Learning Services, L’Aquila, Italy – July 29 – August 4, 2002

Level: Expert Internet Communication

Abstract: The next leap forward in Internet performance is expected to come from a combination of better search engines, higher bit-rate channels, and more mobile computing. However, there could also be an easier way to improve the Internet. The Autosophy information theory, first developed in 1974, has the potential to radically transform all Internet communications. Autosophy techniques are already widely used on the Internet; for example, in the GIF and TIF standards for lossless still-image compression and in the V.42bis data compression standard found in virtually all modems. Those early applications are rapidly being superseded by more advanced algorithms. A television system based on the Autosophy information theory has recently been demonstrated. Applications include High Definition Television, movies, and teleconferencing over the Internet. Preliminary software simulations show the way to extremely high lossless video compression. Compression ratios are dependent only on the video content, i.e., motion and complexity within the images. Autosophy communication protocols are especially suited to the packet-switching Internet environment, being highly immune to the Internet’s current Quality of Service (QoS) problems. Packet latencies, dropped packets, unpredictable bit-rates, and insecure networks may all cease to be significant issues. The practical transmission of video and synchronized sound over unpredictable channels like the Internet may even require the use of Autosophy protocols. The new techniques also yield a hardware-independent protocol that can mix all different data types (including video, still images, sound, text, and random bit files) in the same packet stream. Other applications of the Autosophy information theory include self-learning databases with the potential to replace the programmed data processing computer.

Keywords: Autosophy, Data compression, Information Theory, Internet protocols, Internet imaging.

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