INFORMATION-THEORY PIONEER SHANNON DIES AT 84.(Obituary)

EDN | March 15, 2001| | Copyright

In the science and engineering worlds, where most practitioners are obscure, and few are widely known, one name stands out: Claude Elwood Shannon, who died on February 24 and whose name is synonymous with modern information theory. A mathematician by both education and subsequent research, his eponymous theorem defines the relationship among noise, bandwidth, and channel capacity. Published in 1948 while Shannon was working at AT&Ts Bell Telephone Laboratories, A Mathematical Theory of Communication offered a precise definition of information content in terms of the number of ...

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