Claude Shannon was a rare individual. He never won a Nobel Prize, and was not a well-known scholar like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, but with a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age, making central contributions to math, science & engineering. This paper was written more than 70 years ago.
Who was Claude Shannon? How did he make the impact to the future of our time?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/
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James Gleick's "The Information" introduced me to the fascinating Mr. Shannon a few years back. It's a name anybody working with computers should know; he was an amazing guy!
