[Eecs_msee] Who is Claude Shannon?
Hunter, Tiffany
huntert1 at ohio.edu
Mon May 2 09:59:46 EDT 2016
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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