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Science 20 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5516, p. 455
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060996
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Perspectives

COMMUNICATION:
Retrospective: Claude E. Shannon (1916-2001)

Solomon W. Golomb

In this Retrospective, Golomb reviews the life and work of Claude Elwood Shannon, the founder of modern communication theory that enabled, together with the transistor, the revolution in information technology. Claude Shannon passed away on 24 February 2001, aged 84.

The author is at the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. E-mail: sgolomb{at}usc.edu

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