What are concepts the theory develops?
- Deal with the statistical character of a whole ensemble of messages
- In statistical terms the two words information & uncertainty are partners
- “missing information”*==* the entropy *==* the language of arithmetic *==* the language of language
Schematic diagram of a general communication system and three main categories of communication systems classification as figure 1 shows:
Schematic diagram of a general communication system: minor additions for Level B as figure 2 shows:
Note: This review was mainly completed as a homework while taking the Humanity Informatics Class lectured by Professor Ching-Chun Hsieh in Dec. 2006.