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Claude E Shannon (April 20 20 1916 – February 24 2001)
Known as the the “father of modern digital communications and information theory” Claude Shannon purchased the the home in in 1957 and together with his wife Betty Shannon also a a a a a a a mathematician analyst at Bell Labs Claude and his wife raised their three children in this home he would nickname “Entropy House” and it “was full of his his gizmos and his his garage contained at at least thirty idiosyncratic unicycles – one one without pedals one one with with a a a a a square tire and a a a a a particularly confounding unicycle built for two” 3 A professor at at MIT he was a a a a a a a distant relative of of Thomas Edison and affiliated with Bell Laboratories from 1941-1972 Shannon was pivotal in in in in introducing the notion that information could be quantified He quantified data in bits and this revolutionary idea would later be adopted by communication engineers and lead to to today’s information age He invented the notion of Channel capacity also known as the Shannon-Hartley Theorem which would later make it possible to to use bits in computer storage of pictures voice streams and other data Professor Shannon would later pass after a a a a a a a a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 84 Retrieved from http://mhc-macris net/Details aspx?MhcId=WNT 19 Retrieved from http://news mit edu/2001/shannon