| Description |
1 online resource (xliv, 924 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction. -- Biography of Claude Elwood Shannon. -- Profile of Claude Shannon -- Interview by Anthony Liversidge. -- Bibliography of Claude Elwood Shannon. -- Part A: COMMUNICATION THEORY, INFORMATION THEORY, CRYPTOGRAPHY. -- Preface to Part A. -- Papers -- A Mathematical Theory of Communication. -- Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems. -- Analogue of the Vernam System for Continuous Time Series. -- The Best Detection of Pulses. -- (With B.M. Oliver and J.R. Pierce) The Philosophy of PCM. -- Communication in the Presence of Noise. -- Communication Theory -- Exposition of Fundamentals. -- General Treatment of the Problem of Coding. -- The Lattice Theory of Information. -- Discussion of Preceding Three Papers. -- Recent Developments in Communication Theory. -- Prediction and Entropy of Printed English. -- Efficient Coding of a Binary Source With One Very Infrequent Symbol. -- Information Theory. -- The Zero Error Capacity of a Noisy Channel. -- Certain Results in Coding Theory for Noisy Channels. -- Some Geometrical Results in Channel Capacity. -- A Note on a Partial Ordering for Communication Channels. -- Channels With Side Information at the Transmitter. -- Probability of Error for Optimal Codes in a Gaussian Channel. -- Coding Theorems for a Discrete Source With a Fidelity Criterion. -- Two-Way Communication Channels. -- (With R.G. Gallager and E.R. Berlekamp) Lower Bounds to Error Probability for Coding on Discrete Memoryless Channels I. -- (With R.G. Gallager and E.R. Berlekamp) Lower Bounds to Error Probability for Coding on Discrete Memoryless Channels II. -- Letter to Vannevar Bush. -- (With B.M. Oliver) Circuits for a P.C.M. Transmitter and Receiver. -- Some Topics on Information Theory. -- Concavity of Transmission Rate as a Function of Input Probabilities. -- The Rate of Approach to Ideal Coding. -- The Bandwagon. -- Notes to Part A. -- Part B: COMPUTERS, CIRCUITS, GAMES. -- Preface to Part B. -- Papers -- A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits. -- Mathematical Theory of the Differential Analyzer. -- The Theory and Design of Linear Differential Equation Machines. -- (With John Riordan) The Number of Two-Terminal Switching Series-Parallel Networks. -- Network Rings. -- A Theorem on Coloring the Lines of a Network. -- The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits. -- (With H.W. Bode) A Simplified Derivation of Linear Least Square Smoothing and Prediction Theory. -- Programming a Computer for Playing Chess. -- A Chess-Playing Machine. -- Memory Requirements in a Telephone Exchange. -- A Symmetrical Notation for Numbers. -- A Method of Power or Signal Transmission to a Moving Vehicle. -- Presentation of a Maze Solving Machine. -- A Mind-Reading (?) Machine. -- The Potentialities of Computers. -- Throbac I. -- (With E. F. Moore) Machine Aid for Switching Circuit Design. -- Computers and Automata. -- Realization of all 16 Switching Functions of Two Variables Requires 18 Contacts. -- (With D.W. Hagelbarger) A Relay Laboratory Outfit for Colleges. -- (Edited Jointly with John McCarthy) Automata Studies (Preface, etc.). -- A Universal Turing Machine With Two Internal States. -- (With Karel de Leeuw, Edward F. Moore and N. Shapiro) Computability by Probabilistic Machines. -- Some Results on Ideal Rectifier Circuits. -- The Simultaneous Synthesis of S Switching Functions of N Variables. -- (With D. W. Hagelbarger) Concavity of Resistance Functions. -- Game Playing Machines. -- (With Peter Elias and Amiel Feinstein) A Note on the Maximum Flow Through a Network. -- (With Edward F. Moore) Reliable Circuits Using Less Reliable Relays I. -- (With Edward F. Moore) Reliable Circuits Using Less Reliable Relays II. -- Von Neumann's Contributions to Automata Theory. -- Computers and Automation -- Progress and Promise in the Twentieth Century. -- Claude Shannon's No-Drop Juggling Diorama. -- Scientific Aspects of Juggling. -- Abstracts, Etc. -- The Use of the Lakatos-Hickman Relay in a Subscriber Sender. -- A Study of the Deflection Mechanism and Some Results on Rate Finders. -- Backlash in Overdamped Systems. -- Some Experimental Results on the Deflection Mechanism. -- (With C.L. Dolph) The Transient Behavior of a Large Number of Four-Terminal Unilateral Linear Networks Connected in Tandem. -- Review of Transformations on Lattices and Structures of Logic by Stephen A. Kiss. -- Review of Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener. -- Review of Description of a Relay Calculator, by the staff of the [Harvard] Computation Laboratory. -- (With E.F. Moore) The Relay Circuit Analyzer. -- (With E.F. Moore) The Relay Circuit Synthesizer. -- Notes to Part B. -- Part C: Genetics. -- Preface to Part C. -- Doctoral Dissertation -- An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics. -- Notes to Part C. -- Permissions |
| Summary |
"This important book, the first published collection of papers by Claude E. Shannon, is a fascinating guide to all of the published articles from this world-renowned inventor, tinkerer, puzzle-solver, prankster, and father of information theory. Includes his seminal article THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION." -- Publisher website |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record and online resource |
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Telecommunication.
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Information theory.
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Computers.
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Electronic digital computers.
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telecommunications.
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computers.
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Electronic digital computers
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Computers
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Information theory
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Telecommunication
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Informatietheorie.
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Telecommunicatie.
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Télécommunications.
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Information, Théorie de l'.
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Electronic book
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Sloane, N. J. A. (Neil James Alexander), 1939-
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Wyner, A. D. (Aaron D.)
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IEEE Information Theory Society.
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| LC no. |
92026762 |
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9780470544242 |
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0470544244 |
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