Claude Shannon
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor. He is known as the "father of information theory" for laying the foundational work underpinning the Information Age. Shannon is noted in AI history coverage in connection with the field's formal establishment at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project. He is remembered chiefly for his contributions to information theory rather than for a single ongoing role or company.
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