Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon

male, deceased (2001)
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of...
David Mackay

David Mackay

male, 42 years old
David J. C. MacKay (born April 22, 1967) is the professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He was...
Thomas M. Cover

Thomas M. Cover

male, 71 years old
Thomas M. Cover (born August 7, 1938 in San Bernardino, California) is Professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and...
Robert G. Gallager

Robert G. Gallager

male, 78 years old (Decatur, Georgia, United States)
Robert G. Gallager (born May 29, 1931 in Philadelphia, PA) is an American electrical engineer known for his work on information theory and...
John Preskill

John Preskill

male, 56 years old (Highland Park, Illinois, United States)
John Phillip Preskill (born 19 January, 1953) is an American theoretical physicist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology...
Robert Calderbank

Robert Calderbank

male
A. Robert Calderbank is a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He...

Hubert Yockey

male, 93 years old
Professor Hubert P. Yockey (b. April 15, 1916), PhD is a physicist and information theorist. He worked under Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan...
Harry Nyquist

Harry Nyquist

male, deceased (1976)
Harry Nyquist, (February 7, 1889 – April 4, 1976) was an important contributor to information theory. He was born in Nilsby, Sweden. He emigrated to...

David Forney

male
G. David Forney, Jr. (born in 1940 in New York City) is an electrical engineer who has made fundamental contributions in telecommunication system...
Elwyn Berlekamp

Elwyn Berlekamp

male, 69 years old
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (born September 6, 1940 in Dover, Ohio, United States) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California,...