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"Information Transmission" Author: Wu Jun Publisher: CITIC Press
"Information Transmission" Author: Wu Jun Publisher: CITIC Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
More than 70 years ago, the most intelligent and wise minds on the planet often gathered at the Beekman Hotel in New York to discuss scientific issues at the post-industrial level, including von Neumann, Turing, Wiener and Shannon. In one discussion, Shannon, an epoch-making figure in the history of information, pointed out that the significance of information is to eliminate uncertainty about the unknown world and establish a new era of worldview and methodology.
Since the mid-20th century, information has become a simple and direct indicator for measuring economic development and scientific and technological progress, profoundly affecting and determining our lives. Most of the inventions and creations that we can mention that have had a huge impact on mankind are related to information, including the telegraph, telephone, film, radio, mass media, computers, mobile communications, satellite technology, the Internet, etc. It can be said that the history of the development of information technology is half the history of technological and commercial progress.
This book divides the history of information development into two stages: spontaneous and conscious, and combs through the context of information development in detail, providing us with a new framework and perspective for understanding the nature and development laws of information.
Understanding information not only helps us make effective decisions in our work and life, but also helps us understand the trend of future economic development. At the same time, the successful people and successful ways of doing things described in the book can also provide us with useful reference and inspiration, so that everyone can achieve repeatable success and cumulative progress.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Wu Jun
Winner of the Wenjin Book Award
Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering
Dr. Wu Jun graduated from Tsinghua University and Johns Hopkins University in the United States with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He joined Google in 2002 and is the main designer of Google's Chinese, Japanese and Korean algorithms. In 2010, he joined Tencent as Vice President of Search Business, and later returned to Google to be responsible for the computer question answering project. In 2014, he founded Fengyuan Venture Capital as a founding partner. Dr. Wu Jun has a profound academic background and rich experience in working and investing in high-tech companies in China and the United States.
He has written many best-selling books, including "The Age of Intelligence", "The Top of the Wave", "The Beauty of Mathematics", "The Light of Civilization", "Insights", "Attitude", and "Pattern", and has won many national book awards including the "Wenjin Book Award", "China Good Books", and "China's Outstanding Publications Award".
