What Does Claude Shannon Mean?
Widely renowned as “the father of information theory,” Claude Shannon (1916–2001) was an American mathematician and technology pioneer working in fields such as cryptography who is known for developing some innovative ideas about technology and coding.
Techopedia Explains Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was active in the field of cartography during World War II, in the frantic effort on both sides to gain a position of advantage. Prior to that, he gained fame as a student at MIT with a thesis about the electrical applications of Boolean algebra. Shannon also became known for contributions to the field of predictive coding with algorithms, for instance, in game theory, where a “Shannon number” refers to the number of play tree calculations in a chess game. Shannon is also known for the Shannon-Fano algorithm, which uses complex mathematics to determine the results and/or environment for compression and decompression.
