Prof. Claude Shannon Dies.
MIT Prof. Emeritus Shannon is considered to be the father of modern digital communications and information theory. See Yahoo News for more details on him. A professorial colleague at MIT said on NPR yesterday afternoon that he was the Einstein of his generation. Apparently the only reason he didn't win a Nobel Prize is that they aren't offered in the field of mathematics. [Dana Baggett]
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