Enhancing Education and Awareness of Shannon Theory

美国国家科学基金会的目标是“发起和支持...加强科学和工程研究潜力的方案[和]各级科学和工程教育方案”，该项目编写材料，支持教育和广泛认识关键工程进展的重要性。特别是，它将支持为K-12数学和科学教师制作教育电影和相应的教材，使学生不仅能够接触到信息理论的进步，而且还能够了解普通人如何在培养他们方面发挥关键作用。通过将以前仅限于研究生课程和技术会议的材料改编为更多的受众，更广泛地传播信息理论应该能够为其他领域的教师和研究人员提供有益的信息，从而促进国家的STEM劳动力并改善商业技术。该项目的重点是克劳德·香农的努力和进步，他通过陈述一些最基本的问题并解决这些问题建立了信息论领域。他的工作使之成为可能的技术形成了我们经济的主要推动力。他的信息理论概念为现代信息技术的几乎每个方面提供了基础，并已应用于许多领域，包括通信，语言，遗传学，计算，密码学，心理学，感知，记忆，人工智能，量子物理学等。

Consistent with the National Science Foundation's goal "to initiate and support ... programs to strengthen scientific and engineering research potential [and] science and engineering education programs at all levels", this project develops materials that will support education and broad awareness of the importance of key engineering advances . In particular, it will support creation of educational films and corresponding lesson materials for K-12 mathematics and science teachers that will allow students to be exposed not just to the advances in information theory, but also to how an ordinary person played a pivotal role in fostering them. By adapting material previously restricted to graduate-level courses and technical conferences to a larger audience, a broader dissemination of information theory should profitably inform teachers and researchers in other fields, thereby fueling the nation's STEM workforce and improving commercial technology. This project focuses on the efforts and advances of Claude Shannon, who established the field of information theory by stating some of its most fundamental problems and solving them. The technologies that his work made possible form a major driving force of our economy. His information theory concepts provide the foundation for nearly every aspect of modern information technology and have been applied to many fields, including communication, language, genetics, computing, cryptography, psychology, perception, memory, artificial intelligence, quantum physics, and others.