jan 1, 1916 - Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
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Wrote a paper in '37 that showed that electrical application of Boolean algebra could be used for computation (digital calculation). It's been called the most important master's thesis of all time. Also established the field of Information Theory in the 1948. According to Neil Sloane, Shannon's information theory is the foundation of the digital revolution, and every device containing a microprocessor is a descendant of Shannon's 1937 and 1948 publications: "Without him, none of the things we know today would exist. The whole digital revolution started with him."
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