Pyyan / People / Claude Shannon
His 1948 paper created information theory outright, giving every later system a way to reason about capacity, compression and noise. Also built chess-playing machines and a maze-solving mouse.
Known for
Information theoryThe bitDartmouth workshop 1956
2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 1956–197822 yrsMITProfessor
- 1941–197231 yrsBell LabsResearch Mathematician
1 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
- 1948A Mathematical Theory of Communication
LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.
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