McDaniel College
Department of Communication

COM3372 Information Theory
Richard W. Dillman (rdillman@ticopa.com)


Contents . Calendar . Recommended Texts . Assignments and Grading . Discussion Board

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED TEXTS

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of sources for your research. Rather, it is a sample of the kinds of texts that you will be expected to use.

Various academic journals will often be invaluable to your studies.
Some of these can be found online. Others can only be found in
academic libraries.
Grammatical man : information, entropy, language, and life
001.539 C188
Campbell, Jeremy
Simon and Schuster, 1982
Communication theory : epistemological foundations
001 A547
Anderson, James A.
Guilford Press, 1996
Total quality in information systems and technology
658.4 W881
Woodall, Jack
St. Lucie Press, c1997
Info rich/info poor : access and exchange in the global information society
303.4833 H427
Haywood, Trevor
Bowker-Saur, c1995
Interface culture : how new technology transforms the way we create and communicate
303.4833 J69
Johnson, Steven.
HarperEdge, c1997
What will be : how the new world of information will change our lives
303.4833 D438
Dertouzos, Michael L.
HarperEdge, c1997
Losing control? : sovereignty in an age of globalization
320.15 S252
Sassen, Saskia.
Columbia University Press, c1996
Info rich/info poor : access and exchange in the global information society
303.4833 H427
Haywood, Trevor
Bowker-Saur, c1995
Cybernetics, science, and society
510 W647c
Wiener, Norbert
MIT Press, c1985
The human use of human beings; cybernetics and society
501 W647
Wiener, Norbert
Houghton Mifflin, 1954
An introduction to cybernetics
001.53 A823
Ashby, William Ross
Methuen : distributed in the U.S.A. by Barnes & Noble, 1964
Language as a cognitive process
410.72 W776
Winograd, Terry
Addison Wesley Pub. Co., c1983
An introduction to information theory : symbols, signals & noise
001.539 P616
Pierce, John Robinson
Dover Publications, 1980