Papers

• A Mathematical Theory Of Communication   - Shannon's highly influential 1948 paper. [PDF]

• Algorithmic Information Theory - G. J. Chaitin's series of lectures at the Santa Fe Institute in April 1995.
• The Computational Notion of Life - Claus EMMECHE, 1994. This paper makes an interesting link between concepts of computation, cellular automata and the definition of the concept of information.
• Gödel's Theorem and Information - A G.J.Chaitin proof of Gödel's Theorem using arguments having an algorithmic information theory flavor.
• How Many Bytes in Human Memory - A 1988 paper by Ralph C. Merkle.
• Information: the Concept - An introductory article on information and probability distributions( version of 98-06-10). The first in a sequence of introductory articles on information and probability distributions by Marijke van Gans.
• Information Theory Primer With an Appendix on Logarithms - A introduction written for molecular biologists who are unfamiliar with information theory
• Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information - A particular philosophical approach to the definition of information.
• Irreducible Complexity and Multiscale Reductionism - System complexity seen from a different point of view.
• On the descriptive terminology of the information transfer between organisms - Koszteyn and Lenartowicz consider the information transfer between organisms as a multi-layer reality consisting of at least two levels: the message and its production.
• Publications ( Moshe Sipper ) - Interesting papers on evolutionary computation and on computation in artificially evolved, non-uniform cellular automata.
• The Quantum Theory of Ur-Objects as a Theory of Information - Here the quantum theory of ur-objects proposed by C. F. von Weizsaecker is reviewed, and the philosophical consequences of its interpretation as an information theory are demonstrated by means of some important concepts of physics such as time, space, entropy, energy, and matter, which in ur theory appear to be directly connected with information as ''the'' fundamental substance.
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics - A rather puzzling article by Brig Klyce about entropy with references to living systems from the point of view of thermodynamics and information theory.