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Claude Elwood Shannon

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Claude Elwood Shannon 1916-2001, American applied mathematician, b. Gaylord, Michigan. A student of Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was the first to propose the application of symbolic logic to the design of relay circuitry with his paper "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits" (1938). His insight that all data could be encoded as a series of 1's and 0's pioneered the breakthrough in digital electronics that led to the modern digital computer and telecommunications networks. Shannon worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1941-72 and... Read more
Claude Elwood Shannon
Encyclopedia of World Biography ... Shannon The American mathematician Claude Elwood Shannon (born 1916) was the first to apply ... to modern information theory. Claude Shannon was born on April 30, 1916, in ... completion of his doctorate in 1940, Shannon joined Bell Telephone Laboratories ... Read more
Claude (Elwood) Shannon
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... 2001, Medford, Mass.) U.S. electrical engineer. Shannon earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT in 1940 ... Science in 1966 and the Kyoto Prize in 1985. Claude (Elwood) Shannon Claude (Elwood) Shannon Claude (Elwood) Shannon Read more

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