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 consultant (1947–51), trustee (1954), and vice president (from 1958) at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Weaver's chief researches were in the problems of communication in science and in the mathematical theory of probability. He was one of the founders 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.
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Weaver, Warren

(born 1894, Reedsburg, Wisc., U.S.—died 1978) U.S. mathematician. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, taught there (1920–32), and directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Natural Science Division (1932–55). He is considered the first person to propose using electronic computers for the translation of natural languages. In a 1949 memo, he proposed that statistical techniques from the field of information theory could be used to enable computers to translate text from one natural language to another automatically. His proposal was based on the assumption that a document in a human language can be viewed as having been written in code, which can be broken like other codes.

Weaver, Warren (1894–1978) mathematician; born in Reedsburg, Wis. A mathematics teacher early in his career, he is noted for promoting scientific research, especially as director of natural sciences for the Rockefeller Foundation (1932–55) and adviser to other foundations (1956–78). A past president of the National Academy of Sciences and defense department adviser, he is the author of an autobiography, mathematics texts, and Alice in Many Tongues, a book that reflects his fascination with Lewis Carroll.