From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Communication / Information Theory Outline

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1920 – 1930

A Logarithmic Law for Communication
(1924)

Hartley's Law
(1928)

The Relationship between Information and Thermodynamics
(1929)

1940 – 1945

The Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem
(1940)

Communication Theory as a Statistical Problem
(1942)

1945 – 1950

A Mathematical Theory of Communication
(July – October 1948)

Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
(1949)

1955 – 1960

Chomsky's Hierarchy of Syntactic Forms
(September 1956)

1960 – 1970

Mathematical Theory of Data Communications
(1964)

The Beginning of Algorithmic Information Theory
(March – June 1964)