<story><title>Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/reprints/IT44.6.2057-2078.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TFortunato</author><text>For anyone interested in a quick visual overview of some important ideas in information theory, I&amp;#x27;d like to give a shout out to colah&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Visual Information Theory&amp;quot; post: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;colah.github.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;2015-09-Visual-Information&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;colah.github.io&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;2015-09-Visual-Information&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/reprints/IT44.6.2057-2078.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>glial</author><text>I read Shannon&amp;#x27;s original papers and have been trying to grok information theory off and on with only limited success for several years.  The book &amp;quot;Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction&amp;quot; by Stone really helped the principles sink in.  For anyone who&amp;#x27;d like a textual introduction, I highly recommend it.  It&amp;#x27;s semi-technical - high-school level math helps explain much of the foundational concepts.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re feeling more adventurous, Cover and Thomas&amp;#x27;s textbook is the information theory bible.  It&amp;#x27;s very dense but absolutely packed with insight.</text></comment>