University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Claude Shannon’s landmark paper “1948” (the first one in this collection), which invented the area of information theory, lays the foundations of modern internet and mobile communication technology. His bold insight that information can be systematically measured, and the magical marriage of mathematics and engineering underlying this theory, had a very profound impact on me. I still never tire of reading and re-reading his work. I hope the reader enjoys this as much as I did.