February 26, 2001, the fourth day of February (Government House), the American founder of information theory, Claude Elwood Shannon's death.


Claude Elwood Shannon's death "target =" _blank "> Shannon (1916 April 30, 2001, February 26, 2011) American mathematician, information theory founder of April 1916, Sunrise was born in Michigan, USA Petoskey and far relatives Edison. graduated from the University of Michigan in 1936 and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and electronic engineering, where he met a Boolean, on his course 1940 Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a master's degree in electronic engineering from the Department of Mathematics, he joined Bell Labs in 1941, working 1956 to 1972., he became a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and to become lifelong professor in 1958, and in 1978 became professor emeritus Dr. Shannon died on February 26, 2001, at the age of 84 years old.
Shannon information theory in 1940, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during start thinking and effective communication system problems. After eight years of effort, the Shannon in 1948 June and 10 Yue "Bell System Technical Journal" serialized published a his image far-reaching of the thesis "to communicate mathematical principle". 1949, Shannon and the magazine published another famous essay "noise communication papers, Shannon clarify the basic issues of communication, given the model of a communication system, the mathematical expression of the amount of information, and to solve the channel capacity, statistical properties of source, source coding, channel coding and a series of technical problems. two papers become the writings of the founder of information theory.