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   Claude Elwood Shannon was born in Gaylord, Michigan, on April 30, 1916. His father was a self-employed traveling salesman, and his mother was a high school principal who instilled in him an early appreciation for rigorous grammar and the inherent structural limitations of human language. Shannon displayed an aptitude for mechanics and abstract reasoning from a young age, famously building a functional, albeit very slow, remote-controlled boat at age thirteen [^2].
   Shannon attended the University of Michigan, earning both a Bachel…