massachusetts institute of technology
search
engineering
science
management
architecture + planning
humanities, arts, and social sciences
campus
video
press
Shannon limit
From the pages of
Technology Review
Code quest
September 14, 2010
Explained: The Shannon limit
January 19, 2010
A 1948 paper by Claude Shannon SM ’37, PhD ’40 created the field of information theory — and set its research agenda for the next 50 years.
Also labeled:
Channel capacity
,
Channel coding
,
Communication theory
,
Explained
,
Information theory
Subscribe