Shannon Elwood Claude

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Shannon Elwood Claude

• The Son Of Claude Elwood and Mabel Wolf Shannon.
  He was the only child.

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Claude Elwood Shannon was born on April 30, 1916
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Claude Elwood Shannon was born in Gaylord,
Michigan
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Shannons Invention

• Shannon is as the founding father of electronic
  communications age since he noticed and
  discovered the similarity between Boolean algebra
  and the telephone switching circuits. For
  example, the fundamental unit of information is a
  yes-no situation. Either something is or is not.
  This can be easily expressed in Boolean two-value
  binary algebra by 1 and 0, so that 1 means "on"
  when the switch is closed and the power is on,
  and 0 means "off" when the switch is open and
  power is off.

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Claude attended Gaylord high
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• Shannon was educated at Michigan University in
  1936, where he earned his B.S. degree. Later he
  went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  where he studied both electrical engineering and
  mathematics, receiving a master's degree and a
  doctorate. For his master's degree in electrical
  engineering, he applied George Boole's logical
  algebra to the problem of electrical switching.
  During that time Boole's system for logically
  manipulating 0 and 1 was little known, but it is
  now the nervous system of every computer in the
  world. Then for his doctorate, he applied
  mathematics to genetics. Shannon received both
  his master's degree and his doctorate in 1940.

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How do we use his invention?

• We still to this day still use his invention
  every time we turn on a device. His invention is
  the reason we can flip the light switch and the
  lights come on.

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Dead

• February 24,2001

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The End
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Cites

• http//www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/courses/v6100
  03/shan.html
• http//www.msu.edu/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon