Claude Shannon
(1916 - 2001)
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Shannon gained two bachelor degrees, one in electrical engineering and another in mathematics, from the University of Michigan in 1936 and his masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1937. In 1948 Shannon published a ground breaking paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". This paper laid the foundation for modern information theory. The theory proposed that information such as words, pictures and sounds could be transmitted as electromagnetic waves sent down a wire as a stream of "1s and 0s". He also proposed adding extra "bits" to be used for the correction of transmission errors. He worked in a number of other fields including cryptography, sampling theory and genetics. His work is significant to the UML because it provides the basis for the sharing of models between geographically dispersed teams.
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