CD players, high-speed MODEMs, HDTV ... Ad hoc networks

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Important Events in Communication Theory and
Practice
Theory
Technology

• Early 1800s Mathematical treatises by Fourier,
  Cauchy, Laplace, Ohms law
• 1845 Kirchhoffs laws
• 1864 Maxwells equations
• 1890s Heavisides publications
• 1920s Signaling theory (Carson, Nyquist,
  Hartley)
• 1934 Negative feedback amplifier (Black)
• Mid 1940s Statistical communication
  theory (Wiener, Kolmogorov, Rice)
• 1948 Shannons paper on information theory
• 19481950 Hamming and Golay codes discovered

• Early experiments on electricity and magnetism
  (Oersted, Ampere, Faraday)
• 1838 Samuel Morse demonstrates telegraphy
• 1860s Transatlantic cable installed
• 1876 A. G. Bell patents telephone
• 1897 Wireless telegraphy (Marconi)
• Early 1900s Vacuum tubes, AM experiments,
  superheterodyne receiver
• 1938 TV broadcasting
• 1948 Transistor
• 1950s Time-division multiplexing, color TV,
  first transoceanic cable, first voiceband MODEM

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Important Events in Communication Theory and
Practice
Theory
Technology

• 1960s Theory of high-speed digital
  communications (equalization, coding)
• 1970s Stochastic modeling of data and computer
  networks, Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm
• 1980s Trellis coding, multi-carrier signaling
• 1990s Turbo codes, Code-Division Multiple Access
  (CDMA)
• 2000s Low-Density Parity Check codes
  (rediscovered), space-time codes,
• Multi-Input/Multi-Output techniques,
• Cooperative communications

• Integrated circuits, satellites, lasers, digital
  signal processing, electronic switching for
  telephony
• ARPANET (1969), Mobile cellular
• CD players, high-speed MODEMs, HDTV
• Internet, Personal Communications Services (PCS),
  digital cellular
• Ad hoc networks, sensor networks, home networks
  (smart spaces), MP3 players, GPS.