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3 hours ago · v. t. e. Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. [1] The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley, in the 1920s, and Claude Shannon in the 1940s. [2] : vii The field, in applied mathematics, is at the intersection of probability theory ...
5 days ago · AI has a rich history that stretches back to the mid-20th century, when pioneers like Alan Turing, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and Claude Shannon began exploring foundational concepts like artificial neural networks, machine learning, and symbolic reasoning.
3 days ago · But they underpin much of modern life, from modelling the COVID pandemic to Claude Shannon’s mathematical theory of information (which makes mobile phones a reality) and making sense of Cristiano Ronaldo’s crazy Instagram follower numbers.
2 days ago · A base of two because Claude Shannon showed us that all information boils down to binary bits — base two. Taking the log-base-two of something gives you the number of bits required to describe that something. That last sentence suggests something important.
4 days ago · Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. Also known as: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy of Alexandria. Written by. Alexander Raymond Jones. Professor of Classics, University of Toronto. Author of Pappus of Alexandria. Alexander Raymond Jones. Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
5 days ago · Will we actually make sense of it? Put another way, does the human brain have a Shannon limit? The American mathematician Claude Shannon clocked that there’s a “maximum rate at which error-free data can be transmitted over a communication channel with a specific noise level and bandwidth”.