Google Celebrates 100th Birthday of Claude Shannon, the Inventor of the Bit

Editor's note: This month marks the centennial of the birth of Claude Shannon, the American mathematician and electrical engineer whose groundbreaking work laid out the theoretical foundation for modern digital communications. To celebrate the occasion

Claude Shannon war nicht nur Mathematiker – sondern auch der Erfinder von Raketen-Frisbee und Motor-Pogo. Zum 100. Geburtstag ehrt Google ihn im Doodle. Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001) bekommt von Google ein Doodle zum 100. Geburtstag.

If you like the internet, your cell phone, television or computer, you have a Northern Michigan native to thank. Claude Shannon would be 100 years old this weekend. In this week's Sightseeing in Northern Michigan, we take a look at why everyone should 

But today's Google Doodle (the animation above the search bar on Google.com) celebrates a slightly less heralded mastermind of the digital age, Claude Shannon, who would have been 100 today. In today's Doodle, a cartoon of Shannon juggles the digits 

NEW DELHI: Google is wishing happy 100th birthday to the father of information theory, Claude Shannon. Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer and cryptographer. As a cryptographer for the US government in World War II,