Here’s a quote I came across during my new mission. It’s by Claude Shannon, the father of Information Theory, in an editorial called “The Bandwagon”, published in IRE Transactions on Information Theory, 1956.
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I have a new plan to read or skim the abstracts of every paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. And then form a list of ones that I think are worth taking another look at. A sort of exhaustive literature search, if you will. I’ll post an update in a month after I get past the first decade.