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Article: INFORMATION-THEORY PIONEER SHANNON DIES AT 84.(Obituary)
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- March 15, 2001
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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 with modern information theory. A mathematician by both education and subsequent research, his eponymous theorem defines the relationship among noise, bandwidth, and channel capacity. Published in 1948 while Shannon was working at AT&Ts Bell Telephone Laboratories, A Mathematical Theory of Communication offered a precise definition of information content in terms of the number of bits you need to transmit it instead of the somewhat fuzzier definitions others had used. Although ...
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Article: Shannon dies, aged 7.(News)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);
July 18, 2002 ;
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...SHANNON Bradshaw, the seven-year-old who was waiting for a life-saving bone marrow transplant, died today. The Warrington girl was being treated at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital for the rare blood disorder aplastic anaemia. A woman donor had been found for Shannon, who had become so ill that she
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