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Claude Elwood Shannon bol americký matematik a inžinier, jeden zo zakladateľov matematickej teórie informácie, profesor MIT. Jeho hlavné práce boli venované algebre logiky, teórii reléovo-kontaktných schém, kybernetike.Je považovaný za zakladateľa elektronickej komunikácie vďaka Teórie informácie, ktorá bola po ňom pomenovaná. Ako matematický inžinier položil tiež základy počítačového priemyslu. Ako prvý si všimol podobnosť medzi Boolovou algebrou a spínacími obvodmi telefónu, v tom čase realizovanými pomocou relé. Tento poznatok aplikoval na elektrické systémy na Massachusetts Institute of Technology v roku 1940. V roku 1942 sa stal zamestnancom Bellových laboratórií. Počas tamojšieho pôsobenia formuloval teóriu vysvetľujúcu komunikáciu informácií a pracoval na probléme najefektívnejšieho odovzdávania informácií . Vrcholom jeho matematického a inžinierskeho skúmania bola matematická teória komunikácie. Pojem informačná entropia bol dôležitým rysom v jeho teórií, v ktorej predviedol, že je rovnocenný s nedostatkom obsahu informácií v správe.“Mal som šťastie, bol som vtedy zhodou okolností zrejme jediný, kto dôverne poznal obe disciplíny .” Wikipedia  

✵ 30. apríl 1916 – 24. február 2001
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“My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”

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Scientific American (1971), volume 225, page 180.
Explaining why he named his uncertainty function "entropy".

“Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.”

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Coding theorems for a discrete source with a fidelity criterion. IRE International Convention Records, volume 7, pp. 142--163, 1959.
Kontext: This duality can be pursued further and is related to a duality between past and future and the notions of control and knowledge. Thus we may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it.

“A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.”

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IRE Transactions on Information Theory (1956), volume 2, issue 1, page 3. * The Bandwagon
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“Omni: Will robots be complex enough to be friends of people?
Shannon: I think so. I myself could very easily imagine that happening. I see no limit to the capabilities of machines. As microchips get smaller and faster, I can see them getting better than we are. I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans.
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Omni: Do you find it depressing that chess computers are getting so strong?
Shannon: I am not depressed by it. I am rooting for the machines! I have always been on the machines' side. Ha-ha!”

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Omni Magazine (1987) https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine-1987-08. (sometimes quoted as "I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.")