Claude Elwood Shannon (100 anniversary of birth)

Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001), Volume 49, Number 1

While his incredibly inventive mind enriched many fields, Claude Shannon's enduring fame will surely rest on his 1948 work " A mathematical theory of communication " [7] and the ongoing revolution in information technology it engendered. Shannon, born April 30, 1916, in Petoskey, Michi-gan, obtained bachelor's degrees in both mathematics and electrical engineering at the University of Michigan ...

Claude Shannon : Biologist :

Claude Shannon founded information theory in the 1940s. The theory has long been known to be closely related to thermodynamics and physics through the similarity of Shannon's uncertainty measure to the entropy function. Recent work using information theory to understand molecular biology has unearthed a curious fact: Shannon's channel capacity theorem only applies to living organisms and their ...

Pioneers in Computer Science – Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon and “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”

Claude Shannon was born on April 30, 1916 in the town of Gaylord, Michigan. As Gallager describes it, he “led a normal happy childhood with little indication of his budding genius” [1]. Friendly, but not-outgoing, he showed a curiosity for how things worked. He attended public high school and graduated when he was sixteen, and earned his Bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and mathemat...

100 th anniversary of Ettore Majorana

T his special issue is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the great Italian physicist Ettore Majorana and to his article on neutral particles [1], which is alive till now through years [2-5]. I mean the article, of course, while other researchers invent some mysteries about his death. The well documented review is in ref. [6]. The special issue includes the works by S. M. Bilenky, C. Lim, G....