Claude Shannon | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-06

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00:01:08 1 Biography
00:01:18 1.1 Childhood
00:03:01 1.2 Logic circuits
00:06:20 1.3 Wartime research
00:10:26 1.4 Information theory
00:14:00 1.5 Teaching at MIT
00:14:27 1.6 Later life
00:15:17 1.7 Hobbies and inventions
00:16:47 1.8 Personal life
00:18:01 1.9 Tributes
00:19:44 2 Other work
00:19:53 2.1 Shannon's mouse
00:21:06 2.2 Shannon's estimate for the complexity of chess
00:21:54 2.3 Shannon's computer chess program
00:24:38 2.4 Shannon's maxim
00:25:00 3 Commemorations
00:25:10 3.1 Shannon Centenary
00:30:14 4 Awards and honors list



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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, that he published in 1948. 
He is also well known for founding digital circuit design theory in 1937, when—as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his fundamental work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.