In Memoriam
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In this article, we commemorate Joy Thomas, who sadly passed away in 2020.
Joy is best known for his seminal textbook Elements of Information Theory, coauthored with his Ph.D. advisor the late Thomas Cover. We also catalog some of Joy’s [...]
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