Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory".
- April 30, 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, U.S.
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- February 24, 2001 (aged 84), Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Feb 20, 2023 · Claude Shannon, in full Claude Elwood Shannon, (born April 30, 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, U.S.—died February 24, 2001, Medford, Massachusetts), American mathematician and electrical engineer who laid the theoretical foundations for digital circuits and information theory, a mathematical communication model. After graduating from the University ...
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Dec 22, 2020 · Claude Shannon wrote a master’s thesis that jump-started digital circuit design, and a decade later he wrote his seminal paper on information theory, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” Courtesy of MIT Museum Next, Shannon set his sights on an even bigger target: communication. Communication is one of the most basic human needs.
Claude E. Shannon. The American mathematician and computer scientist who conceived and laid the foundations for information theory. His theories laid the groundwork for the electronic communications networks that now lace the earth. Claude Elwood Shannon was born on April 30, 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan.
Dr. Claude Shannon’s creation of information theory made the digital world as we know it today possible. In addition to being a mathematician and computer scientist, Shannon is responsible for the concept of the “bit” (the basic unit of information), digital compression, and strategies for encoding and transmitting information seamlessly ...
Dec 8, 2022 · Claude Shannon was an American computer scientist, engineer and mathematician. The ideas in his published papers helped jumpstart the fields of information theory and digital communications, paving the way for all the networks of electronic communications around the world that we rely on to make the Digital Age possible.
The concept of information entropy was introduced by Claude Shannon in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", and is also referred to as Shannon entropy. Shannon's theory defines a data communication system composed of three elements: a source of data, a communication channel, and a receiver. The "fundamental problem of ...
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