How to Use information theory in a Sentence

information theory

noun
  • And just as with the information theory analysis, there is no trace of a gap.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The ideas that emerged are the basis of an entire field of study today called information theory.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • While its delightful mix of luck and intuition is part of the game’s appeal, so too is its tie-in to information theory.
    — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Entropy is a big concept in information theory and black holes, as well as in biology.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • A student who studies the physics of electron devices might have little in common with one who studies information theory.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2016
  • Over the past decade, quantum information theory has shown that with smarter measurement strategies, more detail can be extracted from the same light.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Robert Gallager had written the textbook on information theory.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The effort to pinpoint that deep idea has turned up surprising connections to black holes, gravity and quantum information theory.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
  • In the nineteen-forties and fifties, the two strands of research came together in the work of Claude Shannon, a founder of information theory.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • This amounts to giving an extra clue about the word even before the game starts, making the puzzle easier and detracting from its rich information theory connection.
    — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • At the time, Bell Labs was in one of its most fertile phases, having already given the world the transistor, the laser, and information theory.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2025
  • There are also formal similarities in the way that entropy is calculated in both physics and information theory.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Here’s a game Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented in 1948.
    — Jordan Ellenberg, Scientific American, 11 June 2021
  • Within such labs emerged the transistor and information theory, which formed the intellectual foundation of the digital age.
    — David H. Hsu, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • And where else would one study information theory but MIT, where Claude Shannon, the field’s pioneer, had started out?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Some are short quotes from books on computer science, information theory, encryption, and cinematography.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Quantum computers, for instance, are systems where both quantum information theory and thermodynamics are key.
    — Nicole Yunger Halpern, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Doyle teamed up with a group of scientists researching whale communications and brought information theory to the mix in order to get a better idea of the complexity of whale songs, searching for rules and patterns.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Moreover, Shannon has suggested that applying information theory to biological systems, at least, may not be so far-fetched.
    — John Horgan, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2016
  • Deutsch’s new theory provided a crucial link between quantum mechanics and information theory.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Finally, this work may lead to new connections between the study of heat (thermodynamics) and the study of communication (information theory).
    — Joshua R. Smith, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Seth has also studied integrated information theory, which associates consciousness not with the brain’s function but with its complex networked structure.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That’s the position of a theory of consciousness called integrated information theory, says Koch.
    — Mariana Lenharo & Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Initially a way to think about heat and the dissipation of energy that makes perpetual motion machines impossible, entropy has evolved to take a central place in information theory.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Roman Stanisław Ingarden publishes one of the first attempts at creating a quantum information theory.
    — Gil Press, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Today’s Bell Labs, however, is very different than the Bell Labs where information theory was invented.
    — Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2016
  • Especially early on, however, information theory captivated an audience much larger than the one for which it was intended.
    — John Horgan, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2016
  • Jane Gould is a transportation planner from Northern California with a background in information theory.
    — Sue Saunders, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • His work lies at the interface of math, statistics, information theory, signal processing and scientific computing.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But recent developments in nonequilibrium physics, complex systems science and information theory are challenging that view.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017

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