![]() ![]() Shannon was born in Gaylord, Michigan, in 1916, the son of a local businessman and a teacher. But more than 70 years ago, in a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age. He never won a Nobel Prize, and he wasn’t a celebrity like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, either before or after his death in 2001. Very rarely does one individual simultaneously make central contributions to all three - but Claude Shannon was a rare individual.ĭespite being the subject of the recent documentary The Bit Player - and someone whose work and research philosophy have inspired my own career - Shannon is not exactly a household name. The three disciplines are interdependent but distinct. ![]() Engineering builds systems to solve human needs. Mathematics searches for new theorems to build upon the old. ![]()
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