Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon. (1916 - 2001). American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer.

Noteworthy

• First to describe the Boolean gates.
• "Father of information theory".
• "Father of the Information Age".
• One of the founding fathers of artificial intelligence.
• Nobel Prize, 1939.
• Important master's thesis called the "birth certificate of the digital revolution".
• "Founding father of modern cryptography".
• Formally introduced the term "bit".

Quotations

• Claude_Shannon_quotes

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon