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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">30 April 2016, is the 100<sup>th</sup> 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”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Today’s Google Doodle honors Shannon:
<a href="http://www.google.com/doodles/claude-shannons-100th-birthday">http://www.google.com/doodles/claude-shannons-100th-birthday</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For an overview of the Shannon Limit:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq1-Iq9Vm28">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq1-Iq9Vm28</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Beautiful article on the road to the Shannon Limit:
<a href="https://www.cs.uic.edu/pub/ECE534/WebHome/costello_survey.pdf">https://www.cs.uic.edu/pub/ECE534/WebHome/costello_survey.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">More articles about Shanon:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/celebrating-claude-shannon">http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/celebrating-claude-shannon</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100">http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/29/claude-shannon-the-juggling-father-of-the-information-age-who-co/">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/29/claude-shannon-the-juggling-father-of-the-information-age-who-co/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Books and textbooks about information theory:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235">http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf">http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Harsha Chenji, Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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