IT Visionary Shannon passes away at age 84

Subject: IT Visionary Shannon passes away at age 84
Name: ludicrous
Date: 2/28/2001 8:55:21 PM (GMT-7)
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...at a Massachusetts nursing home, following a long Alzheimer's battle. Shannon was an inventor and IT visionary, and later an MIT professor. A 1948 paper written during his 1941-1972 Bell Labs employment asserted that information could be communicated via a 1-and-0 format, bringing to light the digital communication age...more at ZDNet