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Father of information theory

also called the Computer Age,

the Digital Age and the New Media Age

o is the idea that access to and the control of information is the defining characteristic of this current era in human civilization.

o Also called the Computer Age, the Digital Age and the New Media Age -- is coupled tightly with the advent of personal computers. But many computer historians trace its beginnings to the work of the American mathematician Claude E.

Shannon, known as the "father of Information Theory."

In ____, at age and as a researcher at ___ ___ ___, Shannon published a

landmark paper proposing that information can be quantitatively encoded as a series of

ones and zeroes.

o Shannon showed how all information media, from telephone signals to radio waves to

television, could be transmitted without error using this single framework.

By the ____s, with the development of the Internet

by the United States Department of Defense and

the subsequent adoption of personal computers a

decade later, the Information, or Digital,

Revolution was underway

o refers to a historical era and information technology-based economy originating in the twentieth century. It is marked by a rapid transition from the industrialized

economy brought about by the Industrial Revolution to a knowledge-based economy.

o Intersects with the Internet Age, which describes the time since the public first had access to the Internet, as well as the fundamental changes it brought about in terms of information availability and worldwide communication.

this was the beginning of the discipline of information science.

• 1940s

• Late 1940s

• 1970s

• 1980s