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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man wh
Shannon c. 1950s
Theseus Maze in MIT Museum
The Minivac 601, a digital computer trainer designed by Shannon
Statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an article by mathematician Claude Shannon published in Bell System Technical Journal in 1948. It was renamed The Mathematical Theory of Communication in th
Claude Shannon
…DES), and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). As a result, Shannon has been called the "founding father of modern cryptography". His 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" laid the foundations for the field of information theory, referred to as a "blueprint for the digital era" by electrical engineer Robert G. Gallager…
1949 full book edition