1948

Claude Shannon

Information theory

Founded information theory with “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, and co-authored the 1955 Dartmouth proposal that named the field of artificial intelligence.

Filed under

• Theory & foundations

Key work

A Mathematical Theory of Communication ↗ (opens in new tab)

Bell System Technical Journal, 1948

Sources

• A Mathematical Theory of Communication ↗ (opens in new tab)
• Dartmouth proposal (1955), PDF ↗ (opens in new tab)
• Claude Shannon on Wikipedia ↗ (opens in new tab)