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1948 S. Goldman Techn. Rep. (M.I.T. Res. Lab. of Electronics) No. 32. p. iii A general analysis based upon information theory and the mathematical theory of probability is used to investigate..the transmission of signals through a background of noise.

1948 C. E. Shannon in Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. July 393 Quantities of the form H = −∑ρ_i log ρ_i..play a central role in information theory as measures of information, choice and uncertainty.

1950 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 69 1612/1 The statistical theory of communications, developed over the past few years and often called information theory, can be of real assistance in the design of communication systems.

1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. i. iv. 104 Information theory, which has a place in the quantitative description of a language, implies nothing about the relative efficiency of languages or the effectiveness of language activity.

1990 D. Paul in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (rev. ed.) 134 The ideas of information theory, such as coding, storage, noise, and so on, provided a better explanation for a whole host of events.

2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do ii. 64 Cryptanalysis was not new but it was in the midst of being transformed by Shannon's information theory and by the rise of the computer.

1953 C. F. Hockett in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 57/1 Neither the information theorist nor the linguist would claim that codes (d) and (d′) are identifiable with code (a).

1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. i. 25 Research on the degree of intelligibility between the white man's English and Black English would be an expensive proposition... Not only linguists but also anthropologists, psychologists, and an information theorist should be involved.

2004 Technol. Forecasting & Social Change 71 766 Symposium participants were partial to the definitions that have been developed by physicists, computer scientists, and information theorists.