shannon.md

Claude Shannon

• Invented [information-theory]

• How Claude Shannon Invented the Future

  • A Mathematical Theory of Communication 1947 Shannon
    • Invented the term bit
    • Invented information theory
    • It's most efferent to encode into binary and then send
    • What is the maximum throughput given noise

• Explained: The Shannon limit

  • A 1948 paper by Claude Shannon SM ’37, PhD ’40 created the field of information theory — and set its research agenda for the next 50 years.

  • Shannon knew that better error-correcting codes were possible. In fact, he was able to prove that for any communications channel, there must be an error-correcting code that enables transmissions to approach the Shannon limit.

• Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory