Claude Shannon : Biologist :

Claude Shannon: biologist. The founder of information theory used biology to formulate the channel capacity.

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 Bernard, the first systems biologist, and the future of physiology.

The first systems analysis of the functioning of an organism was Claude Bernard's concept of the constancy of the internal environment (le milieu intérieur), since it implied the existence of control processes to achieve this. He can be regarded, therefore, as the first systems biologist. The new vogue for systems biology today is an important development, since it is time to complement reducti...

The Claude Shannon Institute Workshop on Coding & Cryptography 23 rd & 24 th May 2011 Kane Building , UCC

Hosted by: The Claude Shannon Institute for Discrete Mathematics, Coding, Cryptography and Information Security, The Boole Centre for Research in Informatics, UCC School of Engineering, UCC School of Mathematical Sciences, UCC

ESSLLI 2001 , Helsinki , Finland The Mathematics of Information Lecture 1 : Shannon ’ s Information Theory

Mathematician Claude Shannon was born in Michigan in 1916 and died in 2001. The approach to information and communication he laid out in his groundbreaking paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication, published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, and republished virtually unchanged in the pamphlet The Mathematical Theory of Communication he wrote with Warren Weaver the following year...