A Partial List of Tutorials in Information Theory


D. Gabor, "Communication Theory, Past, Present, and Prospective," Proc. Symp. London, 1950

E. Cherry, "A History of the Theory of Information," Proc. Inst. El. Eng., 1951

P. Elias, A. Gill, R. Price, N. Abramson, P. Swerling and L. Zadeh, "Progress in Information Theory in the U.S.A., 1957-1960," IRE Trans. on Information Theory, July 1961

L. Zadeh, "Report on Progress in Information Theory in the U.S.A.," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Oct. 1963

E. N. Gilbert, "Information Theory after 18 years," Science, Apr. 15, 1966

W. Kautz and K. Levitt, "A Survey of Progress in Coding Theory in the Soviet Union," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Jan. 1969

A. Wyner, "On Coding and Information Theory," SIAM Review, July 1969

A. D Wyner, "Another Look at the Coding Theorem of Information Theory," Proc. IEEE, June 1970

R. Dobrushin, "Survey of Soviet Research in Information Theory," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Nov. 1972

J. Pierce, "The Early Days of Information Theory," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Jan. 1973

D. Slepian, "Information Theory in the Fifties," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Mar. 1973

A. Viterbi, "Information Theory in the Sixties," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, May 1973

J. Wolf, "A Survey of Coding Theory: 1967-1972," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Jul. 1973

R. Lucky, "A Survey of the Communication Theory Literature: 1968-1973," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Nov. 1973

A. Wyner, "Recent Results in the Shannon Theory," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Jan. 1974

T. Kailath, "A View of Three Decades of Linear Filtering Theory," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Mar. 1974

I. Jacobs, "Practical Applications of Coding," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, May 1974

E. Vander Meulen, "A Survey of Multiway Channels in Information Theory 1961-1976," Jan. 1977

A. El-Gamal and T. Cover, "Multiple User Information Theory," IEEE Proceedings, Dec. 1980

R. Gallager, "A Perspective on Multiaccess Channels," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Mar. 1985

I. Csiszar, "Information Theory and Ergodic Theory," Problems of Control and Information Theory, 1987

J. Kieffer, "A Survey of the Theory of Source Coding with a Fidelity Criterion," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Sep. 1993

S. Verdú, "The Development of Information Theory,' Chapter in From Statistical Physics to Statistical Inference and Back, J.P. Nadal and P. Grassberger, Eds., Kluwer Academic, 1994


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