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Aftab, Cheung, Kim, Thakkar, Yeddanapudi Information Theory & THE digital REVOLUTION 1. Information Theory Information Theory AND THE digital AGE. AFTAB, CHEUNG, KIM, THAKKAR, YEDDANAPUDI. FINAL PAPER. Project History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aftab, Cheung, Kim, Thakkar, Yeddanapudi Information Theory & THE digital REVOLUTION 2. INTRODUCTION. Information Theory is one of the few scientific fields fortunate enough to have an identifiable beginning - Claude Shannon's 1948 paper. The story of the evolution of how it progressed from a single theoretical paper to a broad field that has redefined our world is a fascinating one.

blueprint for the digital age’ Digital Representation Shannon also realized that the content of the message was irrelevant to its transmission: it did not matter what the message represented. It could be text, sound, image, or video, but it was all 0’s and 1’s to the channel. In a follow-up paper, Shannon also pointed out that once data was

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