Talk:Timeline of information theory

[edit] Expansion tag

Although the timeline has quite a lot on advances in error-correcting codes, to me it seems at the moment it could particularly do with

rather more material on data compression.
more of the important foundational results of information theory.
some of the milestone events in the first use of compression and forward error correction that really put the subject on the popular map -- eg the first use of error-correcting codes for deep-space satellite communication; implications for error correction in the start of the modem industry; perhaps the launch of the first compact disk... etc

For this reason I'm tagging the page as "could do with expansion". -- Jheald 09:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Wavelet compression should be mentioned. Jrvz 12:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Why? It has little to do with information theory. Dicklyon 15:32, 2 August 2007 (UTC)