Claude Shannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claude Shannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claude Shannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001)
Born	April 30, 1916 Petoskey, Michigan, United States
Died	February 24, 2001 (aged 84) Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	mathematician and electronic engineer
Institutions	Bell Laboratories Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater	University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Frank Lauren Hitchcock
Doctoral students	Danny Hillis Ivan Edward Sutherland William Robert Sutherland Heinrich Ernst
Known for	Information Theory Shannon–Fano coding Shannon–Hartley law Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem Noisy channel coding theorem Shannon switching game Shannon number Shannon index Shannon's source coding theorem Shannon's expansion Shannon-Weaver model of communication Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula
Notable awards	IEEE Medal of Honor Kyoto Prize

Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an Americanmathematician and electronic engineer known as "the father of information theory"^[1]and cryptography.

Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. But he is also credited with founding both digital computer anddigital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. It has been claimed that this was the most important master's thesis of all time.^[2]

Contents [hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Boolean theory 1.2 Wartime research 1.3 Postwar contributions 1.4 Hobbies and inventions 1.5 Legacy and tributes 2 Other work 2.1 Shannon's mouse 2.2 Shannon's computer chess program 2.3 The Las Vegas connection: Information theory and its applications to game theory 2.4 Shannon's maxim 2.5 Biographical notes 3 Awards and honors list 4 See also 5 Notes 6 Further reading 7 Shannon videos 8 External links