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toms@kaylor.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes:

>My understanding is that "communication theory" is the name Shannon originally
>used but that it was realized by people that the same mathematics applies to
>many systems and so is now called "information theory".  Does anyone else have
>an idea about this?  On page 173 of Shannon1993 (as listed in the faq) he seems
>to use the two interchangeably.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'll repeat my opinion on 
the subject:

I like Tribus' definition of information as "anything that causes a 
change in probability assignment", because it emphasizes the organic 
relation that information theory bears to probability theory. My trite 
analogy for the situation --

   Info-theory : prob theory = diff calc : algebra.

Cheers,
Bob U.