Research Catalog

Title

Claude Elwood Shannon : collected papers / edited by N.J.A. Sloane, Aaron D. Wyner.

Author

Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001

Publication

New York : IEEE Press, c1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sloane, N. J. A. (Neil James Alexander), 1939-
• Wyner, A. D. (Aaron D.)
• IEEE Information Theory Society.

Description

xliv, 924 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

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.

Uniform Title

Works. 1993

Alternative Title

Works. 1993

Subjects

• Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001
• Computers
• Information theory
• Telecommunication

Note

• "IEEE Information Theory Society, sponsor."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Biography of Claude Elwood Shannon -- Profile of Claude Shannon -- Interview / Anthony Liversidge -- Bibliography of Claude Elwood Shannon -- Pt. A. Communication Theory, Information Theory, Cryptography. 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. The philosophy of PCM / Claude Elwood Shannon, B. M. Oliver and J. R. Pierce. 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. Lower bounds to error probability for coding on discrete memoryless channels I / Claude Elwood Shannon, R. G. Gallager and E. R. Berlekamp. Lower bounds to error probability for coding on discrete memoryless channels II / Claude Elwood Shannon, R. G. Gallager and E. R. Berlekamp. Abstracts, Etc. Letter to Vannevar Bush. Circuits for a P.C.M. transmitter and receiver / Claude Elwood Shannon and B. M. Oliver. Some topics on information theory. Concavity of transmission rate as a function of input probabilities. The rate of approach to ideal coding. The bandwagon -- Pt. B. Computers, Circuits, Games. Papers. A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits. Mathematical theory of the differential analyzer.
• Automata Studies (Preface, etc.) / Claude Elwood Shannon and John McCarthy. A universal Turing machine with two internal states. Computability by probabilistic machines / Claude Elwood Shannon, Karel de Leeuw, Edward F. Moore and N. Shapiro. Some results on ideal rectifier circuits. The simultaneous synthesis of s switching functions of n variables. Concavity of resistance functions / Claude Elwood Shannon and D.W. Hagelbarger. Game playing machines. A note on the maximum flow through a network / Claude Elwood Shannon, Peter Elias and Amiel Feinstein. Reliable circuits using less reliable relays I / Claude Elwood Shannon and Edward F. Moore. Reliable circuits using less reliable relays II / Claude Elwood Shannon and Edward F. Moore. 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. The transient behavior of a large number of four-terminal unilateral linear networks connected in tandem / Claude Elwood Shannon and C. L. Dolph. Review of Transformations on Lattices and Structures of Logic / Stephen A. Kiss. Review of cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine / Norbert Wiener. Review of Description of a Relay Calculator / Staff of the [Harvard] Computation Laboratory. The relay circuit analyzer / Claude Elwood Shannon and E. F. Moore. The relay circuit synthesizer / Claude Elwood Shannon and E. F. Moore -- Pt. C. Genetics. Doctoral Dissertation. An algebra for theoretical genetics.

ISBN

0780304349

LCCN

^^^92026762^

OCLC

• 26403297
• SCSB-10498091

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library