Claude Shannon

mathematical theory from the field of probability theory and statistics

American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)

theorem in signal processing describing discrete samples of a continuous signal

theorem that tells the maximum rate at which information can be transmitted

technique for constructing a prefix code

lower bound on the game-tree complexity for chess

unit of information

1948 article by Claude Shannon

integrated model of the concepts of information source, message, transmitter, signal, channel, noise, receiver, information destination, probability of error, encoding, decoding, information rate, channel capacity, etc

pencil and paper connection game

Shannon coding