Is there any work on entropy-lowering schemes?

[Andy Brown]

Bill Stewart wrote:
 
> Peter Wayner's work on Mimic Functions does just this sort of thing.
> You can describe a grammar, feed it random bits, and generate output that
> has the right statistics and can be reversed to get the original bits.
> His paper was on cs.cornell.edu a few years ago; don't know where
> to find it now.

If anyone finds out where Mimic has moved to I'd be very interested.

Thanks,

- Andy