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Claude Shannon

(1916–2001) Mathematician

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Claude Shannon was a mathematician.

Quick Facts About Claude Shannon

Born: April 30, 1916
Died: February 24, 2001
Profession: Mathematician

About Claude Shannon

American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)... | Claude Elwood Shannon 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.

Quotes by Claude Shannon

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Future

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Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

Data

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I just wondered how things were put together.

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Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.

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Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

Data

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Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

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I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem,…

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I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Computers

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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Communication

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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I…

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