The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
While Shannon worked on secret cryptography projects for the US government during World War II, what theory about information did he conceive?
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Shannon conceived of a way to describe information as an entity separate from the meaning of a message. He developed the idea of the bit, the smallest particle of information.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood