biography
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Shannon, Claude E(lwood)
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| lived:
| (1916–2001)
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| biography:
| Mathematician and pioneer of communication theory, born in Gaylord, Michigan, USA. He studied at Michigan and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1938 published a seminal paper on the application of symbolic logic to relay circuits, which helped transform circuit design from an art into a science. He worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (1941–72) in the area of information theory, and wrote The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949) with Warren Weaver. |
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