From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Claude Shannon
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:35:13 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502240733470.91742@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
Claude Shannon passed away on this day in 2001.
Regarded as the Father of Information Theory, I doubt whether you'll go
through a day without bumping into him: computers, electronics, file
compression, audio sampling, you name it and he was probably behind it.
Please take a moment to remember him.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there)
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2015-02-23 23:45 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
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