Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor...
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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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Claude Shannon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence. Claude was the initial version of Anthropic's language model released in March 2023, Claude demonstrated...
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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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probability theory and statistics, the Jensen–Shannon divergence, named after Johan Jensen and Claude Shannon, is a method of measuring the similarity between...
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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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the content. The Shannon–Weaver model is one of the earliest models of communication. It was initially published by Claude Shannon in his 1948 paper...
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Entropy (information theory) (redirect from Shannon entropy)
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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Constitutional Convention of AI". The project's four organizers, those being Claude Shannon, John McCarthy, Nathaniel Rochester and Marvin Minsky, are considered...
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Noisy-channel coding theorem (redirect from Shannon limit)
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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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 coding, named after its creator, Claude Shannon, is a lossless data compression technique for constructing a...
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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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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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Diversity index (redirect from Shannon index)
(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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during this time include people like William Shockley, Dennis Ritchie, Claude Shannon and Willard Boyle. Bell Labs became a subsidiary of AT&T Technologies...
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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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Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (redirect from Shannon security)
"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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Information theory (redirect from Shannon theory)
communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, though early contributions were made in the 1920s through...
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Kerckhoffs's principle (redirect from Shannon's maxim)
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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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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to the nearest value within a range of digital steps. Alec Reeves, Claude Shannon, Barney Oliver and John R. Pierce are credited with its invention. Linear...
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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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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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traditionally called just "Claude" in English Madame Claude (1923–2015), French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet Claude Shannon (1916 – 2001), an American...
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History of cryptography (section Claude Shannon)
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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absolute limit for the eight-piece tablebase. A variant first described by Claude Shannon provides an argument about the game-theoretic value of chess: he proposes...
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