DocumentCode
1493907
Title
Claude E. Shannon: the 50th anniversary of information theory
Author
Gappmair, Wilfried
Author_Institution
Tech. Univ. Graz, Austria
Volume
37
Issue
4
fYear
1999
fDate
4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
102
Lastpage
105
Abstract
Although experts recognized immediately the importance of the ideas addressed in the article “A mathematical theory of communication” by Claude E. Shannon, it was not until the 1970s that their full capacity could be exploited with the advent of integrated circuits, and today´s computer and communications equipment would be unimaginable without Shannon´s contribution. The 50th anniversary of information theory is an opportunity to briefly present the biography of this man and the development of one of his most fruitful concepts: that of forward error-correction schemes from a pure mathematical curiosity to an important discipline in computer and communications engineering
Keywords
biographies; forward error correction; information theory; Claude E. Shannon; a mathematical theory of communication; biography; forward error-correction schemes; information theory; integrated circuits; Biographies; Circuits; Communication equipment; Communication system control; Computer errors; Digital relays; Equations; Information theory; Mathematics; Signal analysis;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0163-6804
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/35.755458
Filename
755458
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