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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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Claude Shannon, the author of theories that undergird modern computers and the Internet, and Edward Throp, a mathematics professor, are accomplished academics who nevertheless made their reputations by beating the odds.
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Stow of the Scientific Betting System ... by Science News
The point, then, is to accumulate not more and more data, but rather more and more information, in the Claude Shannon sense of the word, separating signal from noise.
Numbers game by Surowiecki, James / Artforum International
Claude Shannon outlined mathematical formulas that reduced communication processes to binary code and calculated ways to send them through communications lines.
Computer forensics: characteristics and preservation of digital ... by Mercer, Loren D. / The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
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