Claude Shannon
Warren Weaver
Information Theory
Shannon-Weaver Model
Communication Theory
100
The university where Shannon received Bachelor's degrees in both Mathematics and Electrical Engineering
What is the University of Michigan?
100
The university Weaver was associated with for much of his life
What is the University of Wisconsin?
100
How much uncertainty a message eliminates
What is information?
100
This initiates communication
What is the sender?
100
These are the senders and receivers
Who are people?
200
the university that Shannon received his Doctorate from
What is M.I.T.?
200
Weaver held degrees in these fields.
What are Civil Engineering and Mathematics?
200
A measure of information
What is a bit?
200
This is what the communication is about.
What is the message?
200
The information source in Communication Theory
What is your brain?
300
The condition Shannon became afflicted with in his old age.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
300
Weaver directed the division of Natural Sciences here.
What is the Rockefeller Foundation?
300
The two words that make up this term are the source for the term "bit"
What is binary digit?
300
Where the message is sent to
What is the receiver?
300
A major critic of Communication Theory
Who is Marshall McLuhan?
400
The most famous paper that Shannon wrote
What is "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?
400
Weaver was a science consultant for this prestigious institute
What is the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research?
400
The only two numbers that can be binary digits
What are 1 and 0?
400
Unexplained variation in a communication channel or random error in the transmission of information
What is noise?
400
Shannon & Weaver's approach was concerned with this part of a message
What is the content?
500
The research organization that Shannon worked for.
What is Bell Laboratories?
500
The university that Weaver taught at other than the University of Wisconsin.
What is Troop University?
500
The measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message
What is entropy?
500
This transmits the message from the sender to the receiver
What is the channel?
500
McLuhan criticized that the Shannon-Weaver Model does not take this part of the message into account
What is the context?
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