Information theory: 50 years of discovery

Preface (S. McLaughlin). Guest Editorial (S. Verdu). PAPERS. On the Role of Pattern Matching in Information Theory (A. Wyner, et al.). Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (S. Verdu). The Interactions Between Ergodic Theory and Information Theory (P. Shields). Information--Theoretic Image Formation (J. O'Sullivan, et al.). Universal Prediction (N. Merhav & M. Feder). Reliable Communication Under Channel Uncertainty (A. Lapidoth & P. Narayan). Learning Pattern Classification--A Survey (S. Kulkarni, et al.). Zero--Error Information Theory (J. Korner & A. Orlitsky). Detection of Stochastic Processes (T. Kailath & H. Poor). Codes for Digital Recorders (K. Immink, et al.). Statistical Inference Under Multiterminal Data Compression (T. Han & S. Amari). Quantization (R. Gray & D. Neuhoff). Modulation and Coding for Linear Gaussian Channels (G. Forney & G. Ungerboeck). Information Theory and Communication Networks: An Unconsummated Union (A. Ephremides & B. Hajek). Data Compression and Harmonic Analysis (D. Donoho, et al.). Association Schemes and Coding Theory (P. Delsarte & V. Levenshtein). The Method of Types (I. Csiszar). Comments on Broadcast Channels (T. Cover). Applications of Error--Control Coding (D. Costello, et al.). The Art of Signaling: Firty Years of Coding Theory (A. Calderbank). Algebraic--Geometry Codes (I. Blake, et al.). Fading Channels: Information--Theoretic and Communications Aspects (E. Biglieri, et al). Lossy Source Coding (T. Berger & J. Gibson). Quantum Information Theory (C. Bennett & P. Shor). The Minimum Description Length Principle in Coding and Modeling (A. Barron, et al.). Author Index. Subject Index. Contributors.