In this article we present an overview of the life and work of Claude Shannon, who died begin 2001. Shannon is a pioneer in many fields of science. He introduced Boolean algebra in switching theory, is the founding father of communication science, and performed several experiments related

Abstract. A glance at the accomplishments, life, and legacy of Claude Shannon. Claude Elwood Shannon is best known as the founder of information theory. However, Shannon also started or made significant contributions to many other disciplines. In fact, upon considering the totality of his work

There are few people of such genius and influence that one can say that if they hadn’t existed, the world would be a radically different place. Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001) clearly belongs in that rarified camp. Not only did Shannon create the field of information technology, he stated some

from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1936. His interest in Boolean algebra began during college, and it was during college that Shannon says he probably first read Hartley’s 1928 paper titled “Transmission of Information” [3] which he says had “an important influence ” on his life [6]. After

On virtually the same day in 1847, two major new works on logic were published by prominent

How can a network be explored efficiently with the help of mobile agents? This is a very broad question and to answer it adequately it will be necessary to understand more precisely what mobile agents are, what kind of networked environment they need to probe, and what complexity measures are interesting to analyze. Mobile agents. Mobile agents are autonomous, intelligent computer software that can move within a network. They are modeled as automata with limited memory and computation capability and are usually employed by another entity (to which they must report their findings) for the purpose of collecting information. The actions executed by the mobile agents can be discrete or continuous and transitions from one state to the next can be either deterministic or non-deterministic, thus giving rise to various natural complexity measures depending on the assumptions being considered. Network model. The network model is inherited directly from the theory of distributed computing. It is a connected graph whose vertices comprise the computing nodes and edges correspond to communication links. It may be static or dynamic and its resources may have various levels of accessibility. Depending on the model being considered, nodes and

Claude Shannon founded information theory in the 1940s. The theory has long been known to be closely related to thermodynamics and physics through the similarity of Shannon’s uncertainty measure to the entropy function. Recent work using information theory to understand molecular biology has

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A tribute to Claude Shannon (1916–2001) and a plea for more rigorous use of species richness, species diversity and the ‘Shannon–Wiener ’ Index

This paper outlines the development and application of an alternative embodiment of Claude Shannon’s celebrated sampling theorem qualified by Shannon in 1949 and tested more recently by the authors, via the classification of a wide variety of real-world band-limited waveforms. The work of Voelcker