Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon was a mathematician and electrical engineer who is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of the computing age, beginning with his influential M.I.T. master's thesis of 1938, followed by decades-long, highly productive career in research at Bell Laboratories. During the war, he was funded additionally by the U. S. govenment to work on cryptography issues, culminating in a seminal paper, published in 1948, which arguably established a new area of study in engineering called information theory. Information theory was devoted to messages and signals and communications and computing.