Claude Shannon

Name: Claude Elwood Shannon

Born: April 30, 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, USA

Death: February 24, 2001

Computer related contributions

American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".Credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship.It has been claimed that this was the most important master's thesis of all time. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis during World War II and afterwards, including basic work on code breaking.Honors and awards

Harvey Prize (1972)Alfred Noble American Institute of American Engineers Award (1940)IEEE Medal of HonorKyoto PrizeQuotes

"I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."

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