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‘A Prospect of Navigation’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Shigeaki Mabuchi
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It is interesting to consider navigation and the problem of traffic control with the common underlying concept of randomness, though Anderson's presentation seems more oriented to thermodynamics than to information theory. But the underlying philosophy is the same: entropy never increases.

In order to decrease entropy without the help of Maxwell's demon we have to introduce work or energy, that is we measure the state of a specific object and control that state with the aid of the information gained.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 377 - 378
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1972

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1Anderson, E. W. (1972). A prospect of navigation. This journal, 25, 141.Google Scholar