Mathematician and pioneer of communication theory, born in Gaylord, MI. He studied at Michigan and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1938 published a seminal paper on the application of symbolic logic to relay circuits, which helped transform circuit design from an art into a science. He worked at Bell Telephone Labs (1941-72) in the area of information theory, and wrote The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949) with Warren Weaver.

See also Gregory Bateson's work in this context.

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