Claude Shannon
1916 – 2001 · United States · Mathematics, Computing
Information theory: the bit, and the mathematics of all digital communication.
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Who shaped Claude Shannon, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Alan Turing
1912 – 1954 · Mathematics, Computing
Bletchley conversations connect computability to Shannon's measure of information.
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- Tim Berners-Lee
1955 · Computing, Engineering
Information theory's coding limits are the engineering floor of every networked protocol.
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