Claude Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as the father of information theory.
Shannon was born in Petoskey, Michigan and grew up in Gaylord, Michigan. His father, Claude, Sr. , a descendant of early settlers of New Jersey, was a selfmade businessman, and for a while, a Judge of Probate. Shannons mother, Mabel Wolf Shannon , was a language teacher, and for a number of years she was the principal of Gaylord High School.
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