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Claude Shannon

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Noun1.Claude Shannon - United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)


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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.
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.
Claude Shannon outlined mathematical formulas that reduced communication processes to binary code and calculated ways to send them through communications lines.
 
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