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Information theory after Shannon

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Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 2
February 2011
115 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1897816
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Published: 01 February 2011
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