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Claude Shannon

(1916-2001)
American mathematician
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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which he published in 1948.

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Born Claude Elwood Shannon
30 April 1916
Petoskey, Michigan, USA
Died
24 February 2001 (aged 84)
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Zodiac Taurus
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