"Well, I got interested in it when Shannon's and Wiener's work appeared. The curious thing is that, during several years, between '41 and '45, Claude Shannon and I lived in the same house at 51 West 11th Street. It was a small brownstone belonging to an old Italian who rented studios. Shannon was in one and I in another."
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, in Bernadette Bucher and Claude Lévi-Strauss, "An Interview with Claude Lévi-Strauss, 30 June 1982", American Ethnologist, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1985)
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Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory.
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