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Claude Shannon

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Noun1.Claude Shannon - United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)
Claude E. Shannon, Claude Elwood Shannon, Shannon
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Information is not a material thing, but, rather, as conceived of by Claude Shannon, it is the quality of negative entropy, that is of order in the face of chaos.
The future of consciousness by Strate, Lance / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
The particular algorithm for these analogue-to-digital conversions is the so-called Nyquist-Shannon interpolation formula, to which Campbell pays overt LED homage in Portrait of a Portrait of Harry Nyquist (2000) and Portrait of a Portrait of Claude Shannon (2000-01), the well-known engineers of sampling theorems.
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While rather questionable, his mathematical model of communication, developed together with Claude Shannon, would consolidate the idea of translation as a mere question of "breaking the code" and would initiate two decades of frantic activities and huge resource and budgetary investments, embedded altogether in the specific dynamics of the Cold War, to attain the so called "Fully Automated High Quality Machine Translation," mainly from Russian into English.
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