Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known...
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power or power spectral density. The law is named after Claude Shannon and Ralph Hartley. The Shannon–Hartley theorem states the channel capacity C {\displaystyle...
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The Shannon number, named after the American mathematician Claude Shannon, is a conservative lower bound of the game-tree complexity of chess of 10120...
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utilizing Bochner's theorem. The name Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem honours Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon, but the theorem was also previously discovered...
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content. The Shannon–Weaver model is one of the earliest and most influential models of communication. It was initially published by Claude Shannon in his 1948...
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summer seminar at Dartmouth for about 10 participants. In June, he and Claude Shannon, a founder of information theory then at Bell Labs, met with Robert...
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Betty Shannon (née Mary Elizabeth Moore) (April 14, 1922 – May 1, 2017) was a mathematician and the main research collaborator of Claude Shannon. Betty...
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Entropy (information theory) (redirect from Shannon entropy)
introduced by Claude Shannon in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", and is also referred to as Shannon entropy. Shannon's theory defines...
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Noisy-channel coding theorem (redirect from Shannon limit)
presented by Claude Shannon in 1948 and was based in part on earlier work and ideas of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley. The Shannon limit or Shannon capacity...
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In the field of data compression, Shannon coding, named after its creator, Claude Shannon, is a lossless data compression technique for constructing a...
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