** Web sites which were used in this project are referenced as links.

• Berlo, David K. The Process of Communication. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston    Inc., 1960.
• Blahut, Richard E. Principles and Practice of Information Theory. Menlo Park: Addison        Wesley Publishing Company, 1988.
• Cipra, Barry A. "The Ubiquitous Reed-Solomon Codes." Siam News Jan. 1993.
• Lucky, Robert W. Silicon Dreams: information, man, and machine. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989
• Schwartz, Leonard S. Principles of Coding, Filtering, and Information Theory.   London: Spartan Books, Inc. and Clearver-Hume Press, Ltd. 1963.
• Shannon, Claude. Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers. Ed. Sloane, N.J.A. and Wyner, Aaron D. New York: IEEE Press, 1993.
• Slepian, David, ed. Key Developments of Information Theory. New York: IEEE Press, 1974.