Understanding Information Transmission
by John B. Anderson
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"This book serves as an excellent textbook for introductory undergraduate courses in information technology. For consumers who want to know more about this field, the book's presentation of the essential math and physics provides, the foundation needed to understand the field and its impact on society."--Jacket.Tags
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Before reviewing the book, I first would like to say that this series of books from the IEEE is excellent. The ones I have read truly did get to the heart of understanding the subject. A couple that I bought but never read were slightly too academic to fit into the "understanding" category. I highly recommend "Ones and Zeros" and "Understanding Digital Transmission and Recording".
With that said, this is an engineering book that has influenced me a great deal. It is a very good survey of the field that leaves some detail out, but strives to build a nice conceptual map of the subject to help you explore on your own. Relationships between the topics in this field are clearly described. I highly recommend if you're interested in how show more communication and information works theoretically and what motivates the theory. The chapters "Why Sinusoids" and the one on cryptography are truly enlightening. show less
With that said, this is an engineering book that has influenced me a great deal. It is a very good survey of the field that leaves some detail out, but strives to build a nice conceptual map of the subject to help you explore on your own. Relationships between the topics in this field are clearly described. I highly recommend if you're interested in how show more communication and information works theoretically and what motivates the theory. The chapters "Why Sinusoids" and the one on cryptography are truly enlightening. show less
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John B. Anderson is the Ericsson Chair in Digital Communication at Lund University in Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1972. His research work is in coding and communication algorithms, bandwidth-efficient coding, and data compression. Dr. Anderson served as President and Vice President of the IEEE show more Information Theory Society, and in 1983 and 2006 was Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. He served on the Publications Board of IEEE on three occasions, and was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Press during 1994-96 and 2012-13. He won the Humboldt Research Prize in 1991. Dr. Anderson is the author of two other Wiley-IEEE Press titles: Understanding Information Transmission (2005) and Digital Transmission Engineering, Second Edition (2005). show less
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- Canonical title
- Understanding Information Transmission
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Technology
- DDC/MDS
- 621.382 — Applied science & technology Engineering Applied physics Electronics & Computers Electronics, communications engineering Communications
- LCC
- TK5102.5 .A535 — Technology Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear Telecommunication
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
