Channels# Channel capacity, the noisy-channel coding theorem, and rate-distortion. Capacity of the binary symmetric channel (1948) Capacity of the binary symmetric channel (1948) The noisy-channel coding theorem (1948) The noisy-channel coding theorem (1948) The Shannon-Hartley theorem (1949) The Shannon-Hartley theorem (1949) Rate-distortion theory (1959) Rate-distortion theory (1959) The Blahut-Arimoto algorithm (1972) The Blahut-Arimoto algorithm (1972)