1. Claude Shannon The Father of Information Theory 1916–2001 Camden OgierCSCE 221 Fall 2014

2. Early Life Son of Claude Shannon Sr. and Mabel Shannon. Father was businessman and a judge for a short while. Mother was a language teacher and principle. Grew up in Gaylord, Michigan and went to the high school where his mother worked. As a child he admired Thomas Edison and eventually learned he was a distant cousin.

3. Education Graduated in 1936 from the University of Michigan with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics. 1937: Received master’s degree in electrical engineering at MIT. 1940: Received Ph.D. in philosophy at MIT.

4. 1937 Master’s Thesis Written at 21 years old. Declared by Howard Gardner as “possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century“ Proved that the arrangement of relays could be represented using Boolean algebra. Proved relays can be used to solve Boolean algebra problems. Thesis became foundation for practical digital circuits.

5. World War II Research Worked in cryptography at Bell Labs and met Alan Turing. Also worked on fire-control systems. Proved that the cryptographic one-time pad is unbreakable.

6. One-Time Pad Key is truly random Key is at least as long as the message No part of any key is ever reused Key is kept completely secret (duh) Unbreakable If:

7. Shannon’s Mouse Created mechanical mouse that searched maze for a target. The mouse remembers the layout of any part of the maze it has visited before. If placed in an unfamiliar location, the mouse searches for one that is familiar.

8. Inventions and Hobbies Juggling Unicycling Chess Rocket powered flying disk Motorized pogo stick Flame throwing trumpet Enjoyed going to Las Vegas and card counting on weekends with his wife and Ed Thorp.

9. The “Ultimate Machine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3csIz3h Ek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3csIz3h Ek

10. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/courses /v610003/shan.html http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/courses /v610003/shan.html http://www.bell- labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html http://www.bell- labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html