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Claude Shannon
Father of information theory
Bell Labs | Associates: Hendrik Wade Bode, Richard Hamming, Ralph Hartley, Amos E. Joel Jr., Harry Nyquist, Bernard M. Oliver, John R. Pierce, George Stibitz, John Tukey
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.
Shannon was the first to describe the use of Boolean algebra—essential to all digital electronic circuits—and helped found the field of artificial intelligence. The roboticist Rodney Brooks declared Shannon the 20th century engineer who contributed the most to 21st century technologies, and the mathematician… More on Wikipedia →
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