- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:59:28 -0500
- To: wangxiao@musc.edu
- Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji <chimezie@gmail.com>, Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Xiaoshu Wang wrote > Second, information is embedded in a message, i..e, it is the > content of the message, yes? > > > [Noah Mendelsohn wrote]: > > > > No. Assuming binary coding is used, the message is a > sequence of bits. It > > is presumed that the sender and receiver agree in advance on > the range of > > possible information values (my term, not Shannon's), that a > given message > > might convey; each distinct message essentially selects one of those > > values. From Shannon's 1948 paper [1]: > > > I take the 'no' means that the message is not embedded? Your original quote was that "information is embedded in a message." I was saying "no" to that; I don't believe it is best to think of information being "embedded" in a message. Presuming that the sending and receiving parties share the necessary assumptions about encoding, messages >convey< or >transmit< information, I would think. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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