[Eecs_bscs] Who is Claude Shannon?

[Hunter, Tiffany]

30 April 2016, is the 100th birth anniversary of Claude Shannon. For those who don't know, information theory is one of the most important subfields of electrical engineering, and Claude Shannon is considered by many to be the father of information theory. It was he who coined the term "bit" in his 1949 masterpiece "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".

Today's Google Doodle honors Shannon: http://www.google.com/doodles/claude-shannons-100th-birthday

For an overview of the Shannon Limit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq1-Iq9Vm28

Beautiful article on the road to the Shannon Limit: https://www.cs.uic.edu/pub/ECE534/WebHome/costello_survey.pdf

More articles about Shanon:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/celebrating-claude-shannon

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/29/claude-shannon-the-juggling-father-of-the-information-age-who-co/


Books and textbooks about information theory:

http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471241954.html



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