Editing Claude Shannon (section)

==Commemorations==

===Shannon centenary===
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[[File:Claude Shannon Centenary Logo.jpg|thumb|Claude Shannon centenary]]
The Shannon centenary, 2016, marked the life and influence of Claude Elwood Shannon on the hundredth anniversary of his birth on April 30, 1916. It was inspired in part by the [[Alan Turing Year]]. An ad hoc committee of the [[IEEE Information Theory Society]] including [[Christina Fragouli]], Rüdiger Urbanke, [[Michelle Effros]], Lav Varshney and [[Sergio Verdú]],<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.itsoc.org/publications/newsletters/june-2015-issue/at_download/file | title=Newsletter | work=[[IEEE Information Theory Society]] | publisher=[[IEEE]] | date=June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709000142/http://www.itsoc.org/publications/newsletters/june-2015-issue/at_download/file|archive-date=2015-07-09}}</ref> coordinated worldwide events. The initiative was announced in the History Panel at the 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop Jerusalem<ref>{{cite web | url=http://itw2015.eew.technion.ac.il/photos/videos/ | title=Videos | publisher=[[Technion]] | location=Israel | access-date=July 5, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706191207/http://itw2015.eew.technion.ac.il/photos/videos/ | archive-date=July 6, 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Sergio_Verdu/status/593697587540008961 | title=Sergio Verdú|work=[[Twitter]] }}</ref> and the IEEE Information Theory Society newsletter.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.itsoc.org/publications/newsletters/september-2014-issue-1/at_download/file | title=Newsletter | work=IEEE Information Theory Society | publisher=IEEE | date=September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904230031/http://www.itsoc.org/publications/newsletters/september-2014-issue-1/at_download/file|archive-date=2015-09-04}}</ref>

A detailed listing of confirmed events was available on the website of the IEEE Information Theory Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itsoc.org/resources/Shannon-Centenary/ | title=Shannon Centenary | work=IEEE Information Theory Society | publisher=IEEE }}</ref>

Some of the activities included:
* [[Bell Labs]] hosted the First Shannon Conference on the Future of the Information Age on April 28–29, 2016, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, to celebrate Claude Shannon and the continued impact of his legacy on society. The event includes keynote speeches by global luminaries and visionaries of the information age who will explore the impact of information theory on society and our digital future, informal recollections, and leading technical presentations on subsequent related work in other areas such as bioinformatics, economic systems, and social networks. There is also a student competition
* [[Bell Labs]] launched a [https://www.bell-labs.com/claude-shannon/ Web exhibit] on April 30, 2016, chronicling Shannon's hiring at Bell Labs (under an NDRC contract with US Government), his subsequent work there from 1942 through 1957, and details of Mathematics Department. The exhibit also displayed bios of colleagues and managers during his tenure, as well as original versions of some of the technical memoranda which subsequently became well known in published form.
* The Republic of Macedonia issued a commemorative stamp.<ref>{{cite web |title=Postage Stamps 2016 |url=https://www.posta.com.mk/en/dt_gallery/postage-stamps-2016/ |website=А.Д. Пошта на Северна Македонија |publisher=posta.com.mk |access-date=26 July 2024}}</ref> A [[United States Postal Service|USPS]] commemorative stamp is being proposed, with an active petition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.itsoc.org/about/shannons-centenary-us-postal-stamp|title=Shannon's centenary US postal stamp — Information Theory Society|website=www.itsoc.org}}</ref>
* A documentary on Claude Shannon and on the impact of information theory, [[The Bit Player]], was produced by [[Sergio Verdú]] and [[Mark Levinson (film director)|Mark Levinson]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrating the Work and Life of Claude Elwood Shannon |url=https://www.ieeefoundation.org/campaign-news/celebrating-the-work-and-life-of-claude-elwood-shannon |website=[[IEEE Foundation]] |access-date=3 August 2019 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803145326/https://www.ieeefoundation.org/campaign-news/celebrating-the-work-and-life-of-claude-elwood-shannon|archive-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>
* A trans-Atlantic celebration of both George Boole's bicentenary and Claude Shannon's centenary that is being led by University College Cork and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A first event was a workshop in Cork, When Boole Meets Shannon,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://georgeboole.com/events/conferences/when-boole-meets-shannon-2nd-i-risc-workshop.html|title=George Boole 200-Conferences|access-date=September 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906204143/http://georgeboole.com/events/conferences/when-boole-meets-shannon-2nd-i-risc-workshop.html|archive-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and will continue with exhibits at the [[Museum of Science (Boston)|Boston Museum of Science]] and at the [[MIT Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://booleshannon.mit.edu/|title=Compute and Communicate &#124; A Boole/Shannon Celebration}}</ref>
* Many organizations around the world are holding observance events, including the Boston Museum of Science, the Heinz-Nixdorf Museum, the Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität Berlin, University of South Australia (UniSA), Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), University of Toronto, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cairo University, Telecom ParisTech, National Technical University of Athens, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]], [[Nanyang Technological University]] of Singapore, University of Maryland, University of Illinois at Chicago, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University of California Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [[Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications]], and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
* A logo that appears on this page was crowdsourced on Crowdspring.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crowdspring.com/logo-design/claude-shannon-centennial-logo-2390839/|title=Claude Shannon centennial logo, a Logo & Identity project by cfrag1|website=www.crowdspring.com}}</ref>
* The Math Encounters presentation of May 4, 2016, at the [[National Museum of Mathematics]] in New York, titled ''Saving Face: Information Tricks for Love and Life'', focused on Shannon's work in information theory. A video recording and other material are available.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/talks/momath/ | title=Saving Face: Information Tricks for Love and Life (Math Encounters Presentation at the National Museum of Mathematics|publisher=)}}</ref>