Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon () adalah seorang ilmuwan matematika, teknik elektro, dan kriptografi asal Petoskey, Michigan, Amerika Serikat. Ia dikenal sebagai "bapak teori informasi", yaitu disiplin ilmu dalam bidang matematika terapan yang berkaitan dengan kuantisasi data sehingga data atau informasi itu dapat disimpan dan dikirimkan tanpa kesalahan melalui suatu kanal komunikasi.

Lihat pula 
 Teori Matematika Komunikasi

Referensi

Bacaan lebih lanjut 
 Claude E. Shannon: A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27, pp. 379–423, 623–656, 1948. 
 Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver: The Mathematical Theory of Communication. The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1949. ISBN 0-252-72548-4
 Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu — Eric W. Weisstein: Mathworld biography of Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916–2001) 
 Claude E. Shannon: Programming a Computer for Playing Chess, Philosophical Magazine, Ser.7, Vol. 41, No. 314, March 1950. (Available online under Pranala luar below)
 David Levy: Computer Gamesmanship: Elements of Intelligent Game Design, Simon & Schuster, 1983. ISBN 0-671-49532-1
 Mindell, David A., "Automation's Finest Hour: Bell Labs and Automatic Control in World War II", IEEE Control Systems, December 1995, pp. 72–80.
 David Mindell, Jérôme Segal, Slava Gerovitch, "From Communications Engineering to Communications Science: Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union" in Walker, Mark (Ed.), Science and Ideology: A Comparative History, Routledge, London, 2003, pp. 66–95.
 Poundstone, William, Fortune's Formula, Hill & Wang, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8090-4599-0
 Gleick, James, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, Pantheon, 2011, ISBN 978-0-375-42372-7

Pranala luar 

 A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Insinyur Amerika Serikat
Ilmuwan komputer Amerika Serikat
Pelopor internet
Kriptografer modern
Alumni Institut Teknologi Massachusetts