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... the work of a communications engineer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories , Claud Shannon , who was soon joined by a mathematician , Warren Weaver . Shannon and Weaver took as 140 Communication in Systems A Information Theory.
... the work of a communications engineer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories , Claud Shannon , who was soon joined by a mathematician , Warren Weaver . Shannon and Weaver took as 140 Communication in Systems A Information Theory.
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... Information Theory , the confusion gets worse confounded . Information Theory , as Shannon developed it , came out with an algebraic expression which clearly meant it had to have some link with the Second Law and entropy . But what link ...
... Information Theory , the confusion gets worse confounded . Information Theory , as Shannon developed it , came out with an algebraic expression which clearly meant it had to have some link with the Second Law and entropy . But what link ...
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... Theory emphasized ; but not specificity defined as meaningless ' information ' ( or negentropy ) ; but rather specifi- city which is in the form of instructions , or program for action ( or ' algorithms ' , if you must have an ...
... Theory emphasized ; but not specificity defined as meaningless ' information ' ( or negentropy ) ; but rather specifi- city which is in the form of instructions , or program for action ( or ' algorithms ' , if you must have an ...
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