Information Theory
The field of Information Theory was born out of Claude
Shannon’s landmark 1948 paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Current
activity in the field can be found at the IEEE Information Theory Society home page.
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The IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory is the main (western) journal devoted to information
theory
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Problems of Information Transmission is a translation of the Russian "Problemy
Peredachi Informatsii"
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A lot of information
theory preprints are posted on the cs.IT section of the arXiv
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Communications in Information and Systems publishes papers in information theory
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A journal first
published in 2003 is the International Journal of Quantum
Information
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Another journal
started in 2003 is the Foundations and Trends in Communications and
Information Theory
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A
more recent journal is Information
and Inference
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There is also an
electronic journal devoted to Entropy and its relationship with various fields
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And there's Information
and Control and its continuation
Information and Computation
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An article on the
fascinating connections between information
theory and fundamental physics
Originally motivated by important problems in communications engineering, as a
modern scientific field information theory has fundamental connections with
various other fields.