Fifty Years of Shannon Theory

应用背景 Fifty Years of Shannon Theory： A brief chronicle is given of the historical development of the central problems in the theory of fundamental limits of data compression and reliable communication. 关键技术Shannon’s A mathematical theory of communication”published in July and October of 1948 is the Magna Carta of the information age. Shannon’s discoveryof the fundamental laws of data compression and transmission marks the birth of Information Theory. A unifying theory with profound intersections with Probability, Statistics, Computer Science, and other fields, Information Theory continues to set the stage for the development of communications, data storage and processing, and other information technologies.