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Claude Shannon

Mathematician and engineer known as the father of information theory

Did you know?Outside of his academic work, he was a skilled unicyclist and invented various machines, including a motorised pogo stick.

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.

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Born: April 30, 1916 · Petoskey, United States
Died: February 24, 2001
Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease
Nationality: American
Known for: Science, Technology

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