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    Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer...
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  • channel to the probability of the categorization error. It was derived by Robert Fano in the early 1950s while teaching a Ph.D. seminar in information theory...
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  • Shannon–Fano–Elias coding is a precursor to arithmetic coding, in which probabilities are used to determine codewords. It is named for Claude Shannon, Robert...
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  • In the field of data compression, Shannon–Fano coding, named after Claude Shannon and Robert Fano, is one of two related techniques for constructing a...
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    father of physicist Ugo Fano and electrical engineer Robert Fano and uncle to physicist and mathematician Giulio Racah. Fano was an early writer in the...
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  • to know the best node from which to explore further. The Fano metric (named after Robert Fano) allows one to calculate from which is the best node to explore...
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  • expected them to appear by chance." The concept was introduced in 1961 by Robert Fano under the name of "mutual information", but today that term is instead...
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    (DARPA). Project MAC's original director was Robert Fano of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Fano decided to call MAC a "project" rather than...
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    did not call it "mutual information". This term was coined later by Robert Fano. Mutual Information is also known as information gain. Let ( X , Y )...
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    Ugo Fano (July 28, 1912 – February 13, 2001) was an Italian American physicist, notable for contributions to theoretical physics. Ugo Fano was born into...
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  • in this paper that the Shannon–Fano coding technique was proposed – a technique developed in conjunction with Robert Fano. Shannon, Claude Elwood (July...
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    Internet pioneer; first to run a visual flight simulator across the ARPANet Robert Fano, Italian-American information theorist Ed Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence...
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  • Look up Fano or fano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fano is a town in central Italy. Fano may also refer to: Fanø, an island of Denmark Fano, Gijón...
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    In finite geometry, the Fano plane (after Gino Fano) is a finite projective plane with the smallest possible number of points and lines: 7 points and...
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  • complex manifolds. K-stability is of particular importance for the case of Fano varieties, where it is the correct stability condition to allow the formation...
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  • systems: the theory of information". He obtained his Ph.D. in 1962, with Robert Fano as his adviser. In 1957, Jelinek paid an unexpected visit to Prague....
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  • industry and academia; included in the list are his graduate students Robert Fano and Thomas Stockham. His professional contributions were recognized internationally...
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    evolution Peter J. Denning Jack B. Dennis Robert Fano – director of Project MAC at MIT (1963–1968) Robert M. Graham (computer scientist) J. C. R. Licklider...
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    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Franco Modigliani, Arnaldo Momigliano, Ugo Fano, Robert Fano, and many others. Enrico Fermi also moved to the United States, as...
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  • for designing the first commercial microprocessor Robert Fano (1917–2016) - computer scientist Ugo Fano (1912–2001) - physicist Anthony Fauci - immunologist...
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    The Victorious Youth, also known as the Atleta di Fano, the Lisippo di Fano, or the Getty Bronze, is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100...
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  • been considered by Watanabe (1960) and, according to Watanabe, also by Robert Fano. For the three-variable case, it reduces to simply P ′ ( x 1 , x 2 ,...
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    Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer...
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  • 1952, Sc.D. 1956) James D. Bruce Fernando J. Corbató Shaoul Ezekiel Robert Fano (S.B. 1941, Sc.D. 1947) Leo Beranek Gordon S. Brown (S.B. 1931, S.M....
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  • 1929) Garry N. Drummond, businessman and philanthropist (born 1938) Robert Fano, Italian-born computer scientist (born 1917) Hollis L. Harris, businessman...
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  • be filter-like was established by Italian-American computer scientist Robert Fano in 1950. One parameter in the passband that is usually set for filters...
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  • constributions to the K-stability of Fano varieties. "Robert J. Berman". chalmers.se. Retrieved April 24, 2017. "Robert J. Berman". Retrieved April 24, 2017...
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  • art historian and medievalist Gino Fano (1871–1952), mathematician Robert Fano (1917–2016), physicist Ugo Fano (1912–2001), physicist Carlo Ginzburg...
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  • executive, Chairman and CEO of Drummond Company, complications from cancer. Robert Fano, 98, Italian-born American computer scientist. Hollis L. Harris, 84,...
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  • in 1938 to escape Italy's anti-semitic laws. Robert Fano – physicist – Italian-Jewish refugee Ugo Fano – physicist – Italian-Jewish refugee Nicholas...
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