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Claude Elwood Shannon
Father of Information Theory

Electrical engineer, Mathematician , and native son of Gaylord. His creation of information theory,the mathematical theory of communication ,in the 1940s and 1950s inspired the revolutionary advances in digital communications and information storage that have shaped the modern world.

This statue was donated by the Information Theory Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , whose members follow gratefully in his footsteps.

Dedicated October 6.2000

两三百年之后, 当人们回过头来看我们这个时代的时候, 他们可能不会记得谁曾是美国的总统, 他们也不会记得谁曾是影星或摇滚歌星, 但是仍然会知晓 Shannon 的名字, 学校里仍然会讲授信息论.