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Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916–2001, American applied mathematician, b. Gaylord, Michigan. A student of Vannevar Bush Bush, Vannevar (văn`əvər), 1890–1974, American electrical engineer and physicist, b. Everett, Mass., grad. ..... Click the link for more information. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was the first to propose the application of symbolic logic to the design of relay circuitry with his paper "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" (1938). His insight that all data could be encoded as a series of 1's and 0's pioneered the breakthrough in digital electronics that led to the modern digital computer and telecommunications networks. Shannon worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1941–72 and initiated the field of information theory information theory or communication theory, mathematical theory formulated principally by the American scientist Claude E. Shannon to explain aspects and problems of information and communication. ..... Click the link for more information. with his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which was retitled The Mathematical Theory of Communication when published in 1949 with a preface by Warren Weaver Weaver, Warren, 1894–1978, American scientist, b. Reedsburg, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin. He taught mathematics at Wisconsin (1920–32), was director of the division of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Institute (1932–55), and was science ..... Click the link for more information. . Shannon returned to MIT in 1958, although he remained a consultant with Bell Telephone. Over the next two decades his curiosity about the fledgling field of artificial intelligence artificial intelligence (AI), the use of computers to model the behavioral aspects of human reasoning and learning. Research in AI is concentrated in some half-dozen areas. ..... Click the link for more information. led him to build and experiment with such things as chess-playing, maze-solving, juggling, and mind-reading machines. BibliographySee C. E. Shannon et al., Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers (1993). |
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| Claude Shannon, the author of theories that undergird modern computers and the Internet, and Edward Throp, a mathematics professor, are accomplished academics who nevertheless made their reputations by beating the odds. The point, then, is to accumulate not more and more data, but rather more and more information, in the Claude Shannon sense of the word, separating signal from noise. Claude Shannon outlined mathematical formulas that reduced communication processes to binary code and calculated ways to send them through communications lines. |
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