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Title: Claude Shannon dead!! :=(
Post by: Living-In-Clip on March 06, 2001, 01:56:25 AM

CNN reports that Saturday Claude Shannon at the age of 84 after a long battle with Alzheimer\'s disease.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/02/27/obit.shannon.ap/index.html#1

:( A great scientist is dead. Very sad.

Title: Claude Shannon dead!! :=(
Post by: Darth Joyda on March 06, 2001, 03:40:18 AM

Sorry, I had no idea who Claude was until I readed that article...

Sad. But everyone dies...

Title: Claude Shannon dead!! :=(
Post by: Waspman on March 10, 2001, 05:25:53 AM

LIC:

Is this the guy who invented Shannon\'s theorem where sampling frequency is greater than twice the original frequency

 Fs>2Fmax

Is it him??

Title: Claude Shannon dead!! :=(
Post by: politiepet on March 10, 2001, 06:46:38 AM

Am I missing something here?
do we have to vote whether or not he is dead?

Title: Claude Shannon dead!! :=(
Post by: politiepet on March 10, 2001, 06:48:11 AM

never mind about the above, I just seen what I previously missed!

Title: Claude Shannon dead!! :=(
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on March 10, 2001, 08:39:25 AM

Sorry, but I never knew who he was. But its still sadd :(