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Drechsler, Frank
University of Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
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  Introduction to information theory
Mansuripur M., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1987.  Type: Book (9789780134846682)

This is a highly specialized and technical book. The course at Boston University was offered to post-graduate students and advanced undergraduates who needed a conceptual understanding of the foundations of information theory. There is...

Aug 1 1987  
  Information as the possible
Blake M. Journal of Information Science 10(3): 99-109, 1985.  Type: Article

According to the author, “[A]n ecosystematic model is used to relate information to . . . other fundamentals such as learning, abstracts, environments, management, change, space and time.” The model presented here a...

Jul 1 1986  
  On time and space decomposition of complex structures
Courtois P. Communications of the ACM 28(6): 590-603, 1985.  Type: Article

Models of systems are always an extraction and extrapolation of something larger and more complex. But even these models, which are often too big and still too complex, need to be reduced to smaller subsystems. Courtois puts forward ce...

Mar 1 1986  
  Information theory for information technologists
Usher M., Macmillan Press Ltd., Basingstoke, UK, 1984.  Type: Book (9789780333367032)

The author states in his Preface that “the book is based largely on a second-year course of about 30 lectures given to Cybernetics honours degree students” at the University of Reading. In my view, it is a very good...

Sep 1 1985  
 
 
   
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