Claude Shannon
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Claude Shannon American mathematician and electrical engineer who founded information theory with his landmark 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." Shannon's work defined the concept of a "bit," established how much information can be transmitted reliably over a noisy channel, and laid the mathematical foundation for all digital communications.
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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 who laid the foundations of the Information Age.
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