American mathematician and electrical engineer at Bell Labs who founded information theory with his 1948 paper 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' — defining the bit, channel capacity, and the mathematical limits of communication.
Invented information theory — defining information as a measurable quantity (bits), proving channel capacity limits (Shannon-Hartley theorem), and demonstrating that reliable communication is possible even over noisy channels — providing the mathematical foundation for all digital communication.
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