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Claude Shannon with Theseus

Claude Shannon in 1952 with Theseus, his electromechanical mouse, which could navigate a maze.

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The US mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, whose life spanned the tumultuous, technologically explosive twentieth century, is often called the father of information theory.

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