The Shannon Diagram: The Elements of Communication Processes


    Biographies of Claude Shannon 
(1916-2001)  



Biography of Claude Elwood Shannon

IEEE Information Theory Society

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Claude Elwood Shannon

Information about Claude Shannon

A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon (local pdf copy)

Bell Labs Obituary

Simple Shannon Framework:

Shannon Diagram without Noise
Examples of communication processes


More Realistic or Complete Shannon Frameworks:

Communication Process with Noise
           Shannon Diagram with Noise   
             Alternative Shanon Diagram with Noise    



Communication Process with Multilevel Encoding/Decoding





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Last updated November 1, 2005