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GABOR, DENNIS. 1900-1979. Lectures on Communication Theory. Delivered in the Fall Term of 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA: September 22, 1951.
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GABOR, DENNIS. 1900-1979.
Lectures on Communication Theory. Delivered in the Fall Term of 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA: September 22, 1951.
4to. Spirit-duplicated Typescript, 83 pp. Later tan buckram with gilt titles on spine. Slight browning and minor staining.
FIRST EDITION, AN APPARENTLY UNIQUE TYPESCRIPT of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dennis Gabor's 1951 lectures on information and communication theory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Included is an extended discussion of the use of light waves in holography, for which Gabor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. Gabor's discovery and development of holography comes directly from his work on information "contained" in wave forms. the realization of holography had to await the invention of lasers in 1960 as a source of coherent light, but Gabor had already established all of the principles of holography and demonstrated in using conventional light sources as early as 1947.
Lectures open with an introduction that discusses "What is Information," "What is the Value of Information?" and the "Classification of Communication Theory." He follows this with a lecture on the mathematical theory of signal analysis. Gabor discusses Claude Shannon's and Norbert Weiner's theories of information, the entropy of noise, principles and theories of information encoding and the limitations of Shannon's theory. This is followed by a physical theory of signals, including the fundamental limitations of signal transmission and recognition in the light of classical and quantum physics. Gabor's concluding lecture is on "Problems of Speech Analysis."
In addition to his work on holography, the Lectures cover many of Gabor's fundamental discoveries in the fields of information storage and retrieval such as granular synthesis and time-frequency analysis.
The text was published by MIT the following year (Origins of Cyberspace 627); but WorldCat shows no available copies of the present edition and only 5 copies of the 1952 published edition.
4to. Spirit-duplicated Typescript, 83 pp. Later tan buckram with gilt titles on spine. Slight browning and minor staining.
FIRST EDITION, AN APPARENTLY UNIQUE TYPESCRIPT of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dennis Gabor's 1951 lectures on information and communication theory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Included is an extended discussion of the use of light waves in holography, for which Gabor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. Gabor's discovery and development of holography comes directly from his work on information "contained" in wave forms. the realization of holography had to await the invention of lasers in 1960 as a source of coherent light, but Gabor had already established all of the principles of holography and demonstrated in using conventional light sources as early as 1947.
Lectures open with an introduction that discusses "What is Information," "What is the Value of Information?" and the "Classification of Communication Theory." He follows this with a lecture on the mathematical theory of signal analysis. Gabor discusses Claude Shannon's and Norbert Weiner's theories of information, the entropy of noise, principles and theories of information encoding and the limitations of Shannon's theory. This is followed by a physical theory of signals, including the fundamental limitations of signal transmission and recognition in the light of classical and quantum physics. Gabor's concluding lecture is on "Problems of Speech Analysis."
In addition to his work on holography, the Lectures cover many of Gabor's fundamental discoveries in the fields of information storage and retrieval such as granular synthesis and time-frequency analysis.
The text was published by MIT the following year (Origins of Cyberspace 627); but WorldCat shows no available copies of the present edition and only 5 copies of the 1952 published edition.