name: Claude Shannon
image: img/claude-shannon.jpeg (Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
period: 1950s
American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer. Founder of "information theory".
- Graduated MIT (Ph.D), 1940
- Taught by Vannevar Bush, worked on early analog computer - differential analyzer
- Worked at Institute for Advanced Study
- electrical applications of Boolean algebra
- "information entropy"
- "bit"
- Richard Hamming
- Everyone
- His book "The Mathematical Theory of Communication", 1964
- Chapter 6 in book "Tools for Thought"
- Documentary movie "The Bit Player", post-production 2018 (trailer)
- Videos from "Claude Shannon Conference", 2016