CLAUDE SHANNON (1916-2001): THANK YOU

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 ...

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A scientific journal exists only because of the good will and assistance of its reviewers. We can only publish less than a fifth of the papers we receive and, in making our decisions, we depend on the expertise of many people. This year a total of 315 reviewers have helped us to decide about the papers that we should publish. Their names are listed below and we would like to take this opportuni...

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We present candidate biographical information for the 2011 USAIN election here. Our sincere appreciation to all of the candidates for their willingness to run for a position on the Executive Council. Due to the Bylaw changes passed Fall 2010, we can now vote electronically. Anyone who has paid their 2011 dues is eligible to vote and has had an individually generated email sent to them that cont...