Darwin Founds Ethology, Studies the Conveyance of Information, and Contributes to Psychology
(1872)
Communication / Information Theory Timeline Outline
1850 – 1875
1920 – 1930
Hartley's Law
(1928)
1930 – 1940
"The Most Significant Master's Thesis of the 20th Century"
(August 10, 1937)
1940 – 1950
Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
(1945 –
1949)
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
(July –
October 1948)
1950 – 1960
Chomsky's Hierarchy of Syntactic Forms
(September 1956)
1960 – 1970
The Beginning of Algorithmic Information Theory
(March –
June 1964)
2011 – 2013
The First Teleportation from One Macroscopic Object to Another
(November 8, 2012)
