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  1. Claude Shannon

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    The Master's Thesis and Information Theory
    Following his undergraduate studies, Shannon moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate work, where he worked under Vannevar Bush. It was during this period, specifically in 1937 and 1938, that he developed the conceptual framework that would become Information Theory. His master's thesis, "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," effectively translated abstract logical operations into concrete enginee…