Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
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Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and information theorist who lived from 1916 to 2001. His work laid the mathematical foundations for modern digital communication and computing, making him one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) 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.
Shannon was the first to describe the use of Boolean algebra—essential to all digital electronic circuits—and helped found the field of artificial intelligence. The roboticist Rodney Brooks declared Shannon the 20th century engineer who contributed the most to 21st century technologies, and the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb described his intellectual achievement as "one of the greatest of the twentieth century".