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Claude Shannon
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American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
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Claude Elwood Shannon was born in 1916 and died in 2001. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection. His works include *Miscellaneous writings*, *By Claude E Shannon ; Warren Weaver ( Author )*, *Mathematical Theory of Communication*, *Automata studies*, *Zi dong ji yan jiu*, and *The mathematical theory of communication*.
Shannon has an Erdős number of 3. He is referenced by 2,681 other encyclopedia articles. The provided data includes a Crossref works count of 5 and an Open Library work count of 12. His ACM Classification Code is 10011381.
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Shannon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Petoskey
- Place of death
- Medford
- Occupation
- geneticist
- Employer
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Noble Prize
- Notable work
- Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
- Participant in
- Dartmouth workshop
- Academic degree
- Master of Science
- Doctoral advisor
- Vannevar Bush
- Field of work
- cryptography
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Image
- ClaudeShannon MFO3807.jpg
- Residence
- Gaylord
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- member of
- Royal Society
- date of birth
- 1916-04-30
- date of death
- 2001-02-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- Commons category
- Claude Shannon
- topic's main category
- Category:Claude Shannon
- Erdős number
- 3
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Claude Elwood Shannon
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011381
- influenced by
- Ralph Hartley
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Virmajärvi
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
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