[Eecs_phd] Who is Claude Shannon?

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30 April 2016, is the 100th birth anniversary of Claude Shannon. For those who don't know, information theory is one of the most important subfields of electrical engineering, and Claude Shannon is considered by many to be the father of information theory. It was he who coined the term "bit" in his 1949 masterpiece "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".

Today's Google Doodle honors Shannon: http://www.google.com/doodles/claude-shannons-100th-birthday 
For an overview of the Shannon Limit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq1-Iq9Vm28 
Beautiful article on the road to the Shannon Limit: https://www.cs.uic.edu/pub/ECE534/WebHome/costello_survey.pdf 
More articles about Shanon: http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/celebrating-claude-shannon 
 http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/claude-shannon-the-father-of-the-information-age-turns-1100100 
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/29/claude-shannon-the-juggling-father-of-the-information-age-who-co/ 
Books and textbooks about information theory: http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1400096235 
 http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf 
 http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471241954.html 
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