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  1. Aug 31, 2024 · Claude Shannon (born April 30, 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, U.S.—died February 24, 2001, Medford, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer who laid the theoretical foundations for digital circuits and information theory, a mathematical communication model.

  2. In 1936, Shannon began his graduate studies in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked on Vannevar Bush 's differential analyzer, which was an early analog computer that was composed of electromechanical parts and could solve differential equations. [41]

  3. Feb 24, 2001 · Quick Info. Born. 30 April 1916. Gaylord, Michigan, USA. Died. 24 February 2001. Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Summary. Claude Shannon founded the subject of information theory and he proposed a linear schematic model of a communications system. View three larger pictures. Biography.

  4. Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory " and as the "father of the Information Age ".

  5. Oct 14, 2002 · Claude E. Shannon: Founder of Information Theory. With the fundamental new discipline of quantum information science now under construction, it's a good time to look back at an...

  6. Mar 29, 2024 · Claude Shannon was an American computer scientist, engineer and mathematician whose ideas helped launch information theory and digital comms.

  7. 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.

  8. Claude Shannon, (born April 30, 1916, Petoskey, Mich., U.S.—died Feb. 24, 2001, Medford, Mass.), U.S. electrical engineer. Shannon earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT in 1940. He had a long career as a research mathematician at Bell Laboratories (1941–72) and as a professor at MIT (1957–78).

  9. Jun 11, 2018 · The American mathematician Claude Elwood Shannon (born 1916) was the first to apply symbolic logic to the design of switching circuits, and his work on the mathematics of communication is central to modern information theory.

  10. Feb 29, 2016 · Biography. Claude Elwood Shannon’s realization that all information could be transmitted in a series of 1s and 0s laid the foundation for a revolution in the spread of information. He developed the mathematical theories and techniques that make possible the analysis of switching circuits, computers and communications.