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    Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known...
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  • power or power spectral density. The law is named after Claude Shannon and Ralph Hartley. The Shannon–Hartley theorem states the channel capacity C {\displaystyle...
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    The Shannon number, named after the American mathematician Claude Shannon, is a conservative lower bound of the game-tree complexity of chess of 10120...
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    utilizing Bochner's theorem. The name Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem honours Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon, but the theorem was also previously discovered...
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    content. The Shannon–Weaver model is one of the earliest and most influential models of communication. It was initially published by Claude Shannon in his 1948...
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  • Betty Shannon (née Mary Elizabeth Moore) (April 14, 1922 – May 1, 2017) was a mathematician and the main research collaborator of Claude Shannon. Betty...
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    introduced by Claude Shannon in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", and is also referred to as Shannon entropy. Shannon's theory defines...
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  • summer seminar at Dartmouth for about 10 participants. In June, he and Claude Shannon, a founder of information theory then at Bell Labs, met with Robert...
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  • presented by Claude Shannon in 1948 and was based in part on earlier work and ideas of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley. The Shannon limit or Shannon capacity...
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  • In the field of data compression, Shannon coding, named after its creator, Claude Shannon, is a lossless data compression technique for constructing a...
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  • The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information...
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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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  • the formulation of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem by Claude Shannon in 1949. It is also commonly called Shannon's interpolation formula and Whittaker's...
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  • (erroneously) Shannon–Weaver index. The measure was originally proposed by Claude Shannon in 1948 to quantify the entropy (hence Shannon entropy, related...
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  • The shannon (symbol: Sh) is a unit of information named after Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory. IEC 80000-13 defines the shannon as the...
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    Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne at the laboratories. Bell Labs' Claude Shannon later proved that it is unbreakable. In 1928, Harold Black invented...
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  • Anthropic (section Claude)
    The name, "Claude", was chosen either as a reference to mathematician Claude Shannon, or as a male name to contrast the female names of other A.I. assistants...
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  • "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems" is a paper published in 1949 by Claude Shannon discussing cryptography from the viewpoint of information theory. It...
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    laying the foundations for the Information Age alongside the work of Claude Shannon. Boole was the son of a shoemaker. He received a primary school education...
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  • information. The field was established and put on a firm footing by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, though early contributions were made in the 1920s through...
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  • is not. Kerckhoffs's principle was phrased by American mathematician Claude Shannon as "the enemy knows the system", i.e., "one ought to design systems...
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  • A Mathematical Theory of Communication (category Claude Shannon)
    Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an article by mathematician Claude E. Shannon published in Bell System Technical Journal in 1948. It was renamed...
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  • hedge fund techniques in the financial markets, and collaborated with Claude Shannon in creating the first wearable computer. Thorp received his Ph.D. in...
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  • The Shannon switching game is a connection game for two players, invented by American mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, the "father...
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  • 1939) Claude Shannon (1916–2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory" Shannon, Tasmania...
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  • everyday situations. Claude E. Shannon is considered by many[weasel words] to be the father of mathematical cryptography. Shannon worked for several years...
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  • A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age is a biography of Claude Shannon, an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer...
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  • the National Inventors Hall of Fame has honored Bernard M. Oliver and Claude Shannon as the inventors of PCM, as described in "Communication System Employing...
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  • random variable, and the operational meaning of the Shannon entropy. Named after Claude Shannon, the source coding theorem shows that, in the limit,...
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    Jean-Luc Nancy, Robert E. Park, George Herbert Mead, Joseph Walther, Claude Shannon and Stuart Hall—although some of these theorists may not explicitly...
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