Data processing as a tool for generalizing communications systems
@article{Luebbert1960DataPA, title={Data processing as a tool for generalizing communications systems}, author={William F. Luebbert}, journal={Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Part I: Communication and Electronics}, year={1960}, volume={79}, pages={431-436} }
Automatic data processing is a tool for transforming, processing, and calculating information. If one accepts this fact, one should be prepared to describe the fundamental capabilities of automatic data processing. Since communications is itself a tool, it is instructive to attempt to describe its fundamental nature in a similar frame of reference and compare the two. The results of such a simple analysis lead to a viewpoint which has important implications on system and equipment design.