![]() ![]() In 1941, Shannon took a job in the mathematics department at American Telephone and Telegraph’s Bell Laboratories in New York City, where he contributed to work on anti-aircraft missile control systems and cryptography. Shannon’s master’s thesis “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits” used Boolean algebra to establish the theory behind digital circuits - which are fundamental to the function of today’s computers and telecommunications equipment. Vannevar Bush on “the differential analyzer,” a mechanical analog computer aimed to solve differential equations by integration. ![]() in mathematics, where he graduated in 1940. Shannon received bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1936 and moved on to MIT for a master’s degree in electrical engineering and Ph.D. In addition to being a mathematician and computer scientist, Shannon is responsible for the concept of the “bit” (the basic unit of information), digital compression, and strategies for encoding and transmitting information seamlessly between two end points. Claude Shannon’s creation of information theory made the digital world as we know it today possible. ![]()
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