5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Russian mathematician who provided the rigorous axiomatic foundation for probability theory and developed Kolmogorov complexity — the most fundamental measure of information.
American industrial research laboratory created by AT&T in 1925 — which invented the transistor, the laser, the solar cell, Unix, C, and information theory — making it the most productive research laboratory in the history of technology.
American mathematician and electrical engineer at Bell Labs who founded information theory with his 1948 paper 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' — defining the bit, channel capacity, and the mathematical limits of communication.
American writer and economist — author of Wealth and Poverty (the Reaganomics bible), Microcosm, Telecosm, and Life After Google — whose work on supply-side economics and technology forecasting has been both prescient and wildly wrong at various points.
Israeli-American legal scholar who developed the theory of commons-based peer production — arguing that networked information production represents a fundamental shift in economic organization.