Claude Shannon (1916–2001)

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 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 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...

Claude E. Shannon: A retrospective on his life, work, and impact

Claude E. Shannon invented information theory and provided the concepts, insights, and mathematical formulations that now form the basis for modern communication technology. In a surprisingly large number of ways, he enabled the information age. A major part of this influence comes from his two-part monumental 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” We attempt here to provide some...