Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented… - Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) is a Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary.

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If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole,you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

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