Latency-Information Theory: A Novel Latency Theory Revealed as Time Dual of Information Theory

This paper outlines a space-time duality study started in 2003 and leading to a latency-information theory (LIT) that unifies information theory with a novel latency theory revealed as time-dual. While information theory guides the design of communication systems, latency theory does the same for recognition systems. A unified recognition-communication system is an intelligence system and LIT illuminates its design. LIT naturally arose from the author's desire to systematically address the design of a real-world intelligence system for DARPA's knowledge-aided sensor signal processing expert reasoning (KASSPER) program. This work has led to practical intelligence system solutions that yield outstanding target detections under severely taxing environments, while also exhibiting several orders of magnitude savings in prior-knowledge storage-space, processing-time, and implementation complexity over standard schemes. Moreover, it has led to the discovery of a mathematical-physical duality guiding life system designs.