Claude Shannon

Mathematician and information-theory pioneer at Bell Labs and MIT.

Organizations and connections

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1. Claude Shannon→Bell Labs

   Joined the mathematical research department

   joinedFrom 1941 · end not recordedCurated evidence
   • MIT announces Claude Shannon professorship, February 1957 ↗MIT Libraries
2. Claude Shannon→MIT

   Research assistant

   joinedFrom 1936 · end not recordedCurated evidence
   • MIT announces Claude Shannon professorship, February 1957 ↗MIT Libraries
3. Claude Shannon→MIT

   Appointed professor of communications and mathematics

   worked atFrom 1957 · end not recordedCurated evidence
   • MIT announces Claude Shannon professorship, February 1957 ↗MIT Libraries
4. Claude Shannon→Institute for Advanced Study

   Research fellowship

   worked at1940–1941Curated evidence
   • MIT announces Claude Shannon professorship, February 1957 ↗MIT Libraries
5. Claude Shannon→MIT

   Works or worked for

   employed by1957–2001Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92760$262569A6-9DBD-4C23-B757-D9B438B8DDAB2 reference records retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
6. Claude Shannon→German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

   Member of

   member ofFrom 1970 · end not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92760$E2264BFC-A78E-4B93-9B12-0A51C49D1D711 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
7. Claude Shannon→MIT

   Educated at

   educated at1936–1940Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92760$D68CFF3B-0803-40D9-987B-04A075B92BB61 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
8. Claude Shannon→Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

   Member of

   member ofFrom 1975 · end not recordedWikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92760$92771C59-D08D-4AFB-83F5-8D3CFF6D6A1E1 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
9. Claude Shannon→University of Michigan

   Educated at

   educated at1932–1936Wikidata statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement q92760$9CFFD3FB-FC59-4B79-B245-DD4B5921EC951 reference record retained in the source statement
   • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
10. Claude Shannon→American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Member of

    member ofFrom 1957 · end not recordedWikidata statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92760$110EBCF0-1237-4ADC-B557-7CBDE331E2081 reference record retained in the source statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
11. Claude Shannon→Institute for Advanced Study

    Works or worked for

    employed by1940–1941Wikidata statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92760$fefb6385-433d-7380-cc01-5d20de1914411 reference record retained in the source statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
12. Claude Shannon→National Academy of Sciences

    Member of

    member ofFrom 1956 · end not recordedWikidata statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92760$281f637c-40db-0a18-3137-6ed44f4b92df1 reference record retained in the source statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
13. Claude Shannon→American Philosophical Society

    Member of

    member ofFrom 1983 · end not recordedWikidata statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92760$F8AA61A4-F218-4CD3-B6B3-509551CACE491 reference record retained in the source statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
14. Claude Shannon→Royal Society of London

    Member of

    member ofDates not recordedWikidata statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P463 · Statement Q92760$1C56F0B2-2D43-4824-8A0B-A788F1A42FA61 reference record retained in the source statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
15. Claude Shannon→Bell Labs

    Works or worked for

    employed by1941–1958Wikidata statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q92760$aae63cbe-4f27-ca18-ebb5-92c3f3fa72fa3 reference records retained in the source statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
16. Claude Shannon→Gaylord High School

    Educated at

    educated atThrough 1932 · start not recordedWikidata statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q92760$38674769-5892-4DE1-B659-C41FB80BDF9B1 reference record retained in the source statement
    • Wikidata: Claude Shannon ↗Wikidata
17. Claude Shannon↔Glenn Theodore Seaborg

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
18. Claude Shannon↔Alan Kay

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
19. Claude Shannon↔Stephen Elop

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
20. Claude Shannon↔Robert H. Dennard

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
21. Claude Shannon↔Charlie Rose

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
22. Claude Shannon↔Leonard Bosack

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
23. Claude Shannon↔Philip Rosedale

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
24. Claude Shannon↔Eugene Kleiner

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
25. Claude Shannon↔Felix Bloch

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
26. Claude Shannon↔Ken Thompson

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix ↗lwn.net · 2022-01-28
    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
27. Claude Shannon↔Paul Allen

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
28. Claude Shannon↔Richard Hamming

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix ↗lwn.net · 2022-01-28
29. Claude Shannon↔Steven Levy

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Early Artificial Intelligence Projects: A Student Perspective (2006) ↗projects.csail.mit.edu · 2023-05-08
30. Claude Shannon↔Scott Hassan

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
31. Claude Shannon↔Konrad Zuse

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • 1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI ↗people.idsia.ch · 2021-06-17
    • Turing Oversold? ↗people.idsia.ch · 2021-09-14
32. Claude Shannon↔Gordon Moore

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
33. Alan Turing↔Claude Shannon

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Alan Turing – The Delilah Project ↗www.bonhams.com · 2024-01-04
    • Lost Generation: The Relay Computers ↗technicshistory.wordpress.com · 2017-05-10
34. Claude Shannon↔John Warnock

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
35. Claude Shannon↔Donald Knuth

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
36. Claude Shannon↔Dario Amodei

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
37. Claude Shannon↔Michael Dell

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
38. Claude Shannon↔Howard Aiken

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
39. Claude Shannon↔Peter Thiel

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
40. Claude Shannon↔Mark Zuckerberg

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
41. Claude Shannon↔John Backus

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
42. Claude Shannon↔Fred Brooks

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
43. Claude Shannon↔Shel Kaphan

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
44. Claude Shannon↔Martin Edward Hellman

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
45. Claude Shannon↔George Gamow

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
46. Claude Shannon↔Rob Enderle

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
47. Claude Shannon↔Malcolm Gladwell

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • All Hacker News Evergreen Stories Ordered by Score ↗contextly.com · 2014-11-17
48. Claude Shannon↔Scott McNealy

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
49. Claude Shannon↔Grace Hopper

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • Early Artificial Intelligence Projects: A Student Perspective (2006) ↗projects.csail.mit.edu · 2023-05-08
50. Claude Shannon↔George F. Smoot

    Co-mentioned; relationship unclassified

    co mentionedDates not recordedCo-mention · relationship unclassified

    Appearing in the same article does not establish a professional or personal relationship.

    • A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05