Information Theory

Claude Shannon

Slide Show Introductory lecture based in part on Em Griffin, A First Look at Communication theory (3rd ed.), McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Related Theories:

Cybernetics and System Theory
Technology

Links:

Shannon (online bio)
Definitions of Information Theory Terms (Principia Cybernetica WWW)
Entropy on the World Wide Web (Chris Hillman, U. of Washington)
Entropy in Information and Coding Theory (WWW)
Knowledge Measurement (a paper by by Walther Umstaetter)
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (full text of Shannon's original papers on WWW)
Shannon and Weaver (notes for a Wake Forest comm. course)
Shannon Theory: Present and Future (online panel discussion 12/94)
Transmission Model of Communication (Explication and critique of information theory by Daniel Chandler)
Weaver’s Introduction to The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Excerpts)
 

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