Great ideas in Information Theory Language and Cybernetics

Jagjit Singh

• CONTENTS:
• I. Language and Communication
• II. What Is Information?
• III. Information Flow Over Discrete Channels
• IV. Coding Theory
• V. Reliable Transmission and Redundancy
• VI. Continuous Channels
• VII. Information and Entropy
• VIII. Automatic Computers - Analogue Machines
• IX. Automatic Computers - Digitals Machines
• X. The Computer and the Brain
• XI. Neural Networks - McCulloch and Pitts
• XII. Neural Networks - Von Neumann
• XIII. Turing Machines
• XIV. Intelligence Amplifiers
• XV. Learning Machines or Perceptrons
• XVI. Artificial Intelligence - Game-Playing Machines
• XVII. Artificial Intelligence - Translating Machines
• XVIII. Uttley Machines
• XIX. Mathematical Theories of the Living Brain.
• Epilogue.
• Index.
• ISBN 0-486-21694-2