Information theory turns 70 this year (this month!); Claude Shannon's famous paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf] was published in 1948 and has been lauded as one of the foundations of the "digital age". One of the first things it did was allow engineers to design communication networks that worked in the presence of noise. As a subject, it's far more general, though.
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Information theory turns 70 this year (this month!); Claude Shannon's famous paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf] was published in 1948 and has been lauded as one of the foundations of the "digital age". One of the first things it did was allow engineers to design communication networks that worked in the presence of noise. As a subject, it's far more general, though.