[Cryptography] Claude Shannon

[Henry Baker]

At 11:37 AM 2/23/2015, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>Claude Shannon passed away on this day in 2001.
>
>Regarded as the Father of Information Theory, I doubt whether you'll go 
>through a day without bumping into him: computers, electronics, file 
>compression, audio sampling, you name it and he was probably behind it.
>
>Please take a moment to remember him.

Agreed.  But Shannon was perhaps the last Victorian scientist; his
information theory may well be at odds with quantum mechanics.  We
still don't know what a bit _weighs_; and resolving this (and other
associated questions) will keep physicists occupied for perhaps the
next 50 years.

I'm sorry to have never seen him ride his unicycle at MIT.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/claude-e-shannon-founder/

"With the fundamental new discipline of quantum information science now under construction, it's a good time to look back at an extraordinary scientist who single-handedly launched classical information theory"