CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Claude Shannon, considered to be the father of modern digital communications and information theory, has died. Shannon, professor emeritus at MIT, died Saturday at a Massachusetts ...

Editor’s note: This month’s History Matters article was written by Brian Pearson and Phil Alexander. Both serve on the organization’s steering committee. History Matters is a collaborative effort of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Claude Shannon left the University in 1936, but his theories about computers and their influence ...

Gaylord -- Ann Arbor -- The room-sized brain -- MIT -- A decidedly unconventional type of youngster -- Cold Spring Harbor -- The labs -- Princeton -- Fire control ...

The Bit Player, a film spotlighting the overlooked genius of Claude Shannon whose work laid the foundation for the information age, will be the focus of Northwestern Engineering’s ETOPiA program this ...

A channel’s maximum throughput as a function of symbol rate and bandwidth. A channel’s maximum throughput as a function of noise interference. How throughput considerations go all the way back to the ...

Claude Shannon, nicknamed “the father of information theory” for his work on digital computing and electronic communication, was also a juggling unicyclist who would have turned 100 on Saturday. To ...