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This scientist, who worked at Bell Labs, is known as the "father of information theory" for his 1948 paper.
- Claude Shannon
- Alan Turing
- John von Neumann
- Norbert Wiener
This is the maximum rate at which information can be reliably transmitted over a communication channel.
- Channel capacity
- Baud rate
- Signal strength
- Compression ratio
Eight bits grouped together form this common unit of digital information, often used to represent a single character.
- Kilobit
- Megabyte
- Nibble
- Byte
Unwanted random variations in a signal that can interfere with the transmission of information.
- Feedback
- Latency
- Noise
- Echo
The medium or pathway through which information travels from sender to receiver.
- Channel
- Protocol
- Buffer
- Gateway
This type of compression allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed version.
- Lossy compression
- Partial compression
- Hybrid compression
- Lossless compression
The entity that creates and sends a message in a communication system.
- Receiver
- Decoder
- Source
- Relay
The entity that receives and interprets a transmitted message.
- Receiver
- Transmitter
- Encoder
- Router
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