Claude Shannon
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| + | '''Claude Elwood Shannon''' (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American [[mathematician]], [[electrical engineering|electrical engineer]], and [[cryptography|cryptographer]] known as "the father of [[information theory]]". | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
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| + | * [[Channel capacity]] | ||
| + | * [[Claude E. Shannon Award]] | ||
| + | * [[Confusion and diffusion]] | ||
| + | * [[Information entropy]] | ||
| + | * [[Information theory]] | ||
| + | * [[List of pioneers in computer science]] | ||
| + | * [[Noisy channel coding theorem]] | ||
| + | * [[Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem]] | ||
| + | * [[One-time pad]] | ||
| + | * [[Rate distortion theory]] | ||
| + | * [[Shannon index]] | ||
| + | * [[Shannon number]] | ||
| + | * [[Shannon switching game]] | ||
| + | * [[Shannon–Fano coding]] | ||
| + | * [[Shannon–Hartley theorem]] | ||
| + | * [[Shannon's expansion]] | ||
| + | * [[Shannon's source coding theorem]] | ||
| + | * [[Signal-flow graph]] | ||
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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
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See also
- Channel capacity
- Claude E. Shannon Award
- Confusion and diffusion
- Information entropy
- Information theory
- List of pioneers in computer science
- Noisy channel coding theorem
- Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
- One-time pad
- Rate distortion theory
- Shannon index
- Shannon number
- Shannon switching game
- Shannon–Fano coding
- Shannon–Hartley theorem
- Shannon's expansion
- Shannon's source coding theorem
- Signal-flow graph
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