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- Birth nameClaude Elwood Shannon
- Claude Shannon was born on April 30, 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, USA. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Moore and Norma Barzman. He died on February 24, 2001 in Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpousesMary Elizabeth Moore(March 24, 1949 - February 24, 2001) (his death, 3 children)Norma Barzman(1940 - 1941?) (divorced)
- A Mind at Play, a biography of Shannon written by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, was published in 2017. They described Shannon as "the most important genius you've never heard of, a man whose intellect was on par with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton".
- Father: Claude Elwood Shannon; Mother: Mable Catherine E. Wolf.
- Shannon presented himself as apolitical and an atheist.
- He made contributions to artificial intelligence. His achievements are said to be on par with those of Albert Einstein and Alan Turing in their fields.
- He is credited alongside George Boole for laying the foundations of the Information Age.
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