Claude Elwood Shannon


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Noun1.Claude Elwood Shannon - United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)
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Claude Elwood Shannon was born in Petoskey, Michigan in 1916, but grew up in the Otsego County town of Gaylord.
Built by US inventor Claude Elwood Shannon, based on an idea by another American scientist Marvin Minsky, the machine is made of wood and it has a switch on top.
In 1950 the American mathematician Claude Elwood shannon (b.