Electrial and Computer Engineering News
Shannon Statue
Last year a group of EE students attended the unvailing of the Claude Shannon statue in Gaylord Michigan. For more information on the Shannon Statue visit http://www.eecs.umich.edu/shannonstatue/.
Claude Elwood Shannon
Father of Information Theory
Electrical engineer, mathematician, and native son of Gaylord. His creation of information theory, the mathematical theory of communication, in the 1940s and 1950s inspired the revolutionary advances in digital communications and information storage that have shaped the modern world.
This statue was donated by the Information Theory Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, whose members follow gratefully in his footsteps.
Dedicated October 6, 2000
Eugene Daub, Sculptor