Shannon may also be the reason that modern communication has progressed from the fritzy TV pictures of the 1950s to a civilization saturated with high-speed and ubiquitous multimedia data. Shannon’s ...

Shannon’s WWII work on cryptography was even more closely related to his later publications on communication theory. His wartime Bell Labs paper, “Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems,” ...

published the ' Mathematical Theory of Communication, ' which is the basic theory of current communication technology. In this treatise, Shannon uses the word 'bit' for the first time.

In the science and engineering worlds, where most practitioners are obscure, and few are widely known, one name stands out: Claude Elwood Shannon, who died on February 24 and whose name is synonymous ...

Shannon’s work is among the most important of the 20th century. It establishes the limits on the amount of information that can be sent from one location in the universe to another.

This equation was published in the 1949 book The Mathematical Theory of Communication, co-written by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver.An elegant way to work out how efficient a code could be, it ...

Google Doodle honored Claude Shannon, the ‘Father of Information Theory,’ on his 100th birthday. He’s also known for inventions such as the rocket-powered Frisbee, a flame-throwing trumpet ...