Claude Shannon
Mathematician, Computer Scientist
1916 – 2001
Who was Claude Shannon?
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948. However, he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his basic work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.
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- Born
- Apr 30, 1916
Petoskey - Also known as
- Claude E. Shannon
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Michigan
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Feb 24, 2001
Medford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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