The Transmission of Information

Summary

A 1949 report on discrete messages and noiseless transmission, including information measures and recoding.

Implications for practice

It gives an inspectable technical route into a reading-list reference.

Key distinctions

• TR 65 versus Part II/TR 149

Historical development

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Ideas it depends on

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Further developments

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Connections to practice

• What counts as a possible message?

Common confusions

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Further checks

• Extend the evidence pass beyond the cited passages.

Recorded connections

Check the wording, direction, scope, sources, and status of a connection before relying on it.

• The Transmission of Information is listed in Selected readings, 21 March 1952 — Wiener

  Status: candidate · Relation: listed in bibliography

  Bibliographic selection only. No influence, endorsement, or full-text coverage is implied.

  Locator: Selected readings, 21 March 1952; Fano, R. M. The Transmission of Information. M.I.T. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Technical Report No. 65. Part II. Technical Report No. 149.

  • Wiener’s selected readings on cybernetics, 1951, 1952, 1956 (bibliographic or source boundary checked)

• The Transmission of Information credits Robert M. Fano

  Status: candidate · Relation: authored by

  Bibliographic attribution as listed; a credit is not an influence claim.

  Locator: Fano, R. M. The Transmission of Information. M.I.T. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Technical Report No. 65. Part II. Technical Report No. 149.

  • Wiener’s selected readings on cybernetics, 1951, 1952, 1956 (bibliographic or source boundary checked)

• The Transmission of Information presents an account of Information coding

  Status: candidate · Relation: presents account of

  Limited to the identified passage. A practice analogy needs its own assumptions and evidence.

  Locator: TR 65, abstract; sections I–III

  • The Transmission of Information, Technical Report No. 65 (passage checked)

• The Transmission of Information presents an account of Information theory

  Status: candidate · Relation: presents account of

  Limited to the identified passage. A practice analogy needs its own assumptions and evidence.

  Locator: TR 65, introduction

  • The Transmission of Information, Technical Report No. 65 (passage checked)

• The Transmission of Information acknowledges work by Norbert Wiener

  Status: candidate · Relation: discusses in introduction

  Fano explicitly discusses this work; no mentorship or collaboration is inferred.

  Locator: Introduction, printed pp. 1–3

  • The Transmission of Information, Technical Report No. 65 (passage checked)

• The Transmission of Information acknowledges work by Claude E. Shannon

  Status: candidate · Relation: discusses in introduction

  Fano explicitly discusses this work; no mentorship or collaboration is inferred.

  Locator: Introduction, printed pp. 1–3

  • The Transmission of Information, Technical Report No. 65 (passage checked)

Sources and passage locators

• Wiener’s selected readings on cybernetics, 1951, 1952, 1956 (bibliographic or source boundary checked)
• The Transmission of Information, Technical Report No. 65 (passage checked)

Cite this entry

Taylor, B. P. (2026). The Transmission of Information. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/publication_early_fano_transmission/

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