Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude E. Shannon (1916 - 2001)
Videos on Shannon and Information Theory
The Shannon Centennial Video:
1100100 years of bits (IEEE Information Theory Society, 2016)
Shannon papers
Shannon's 1967 paper (in two parts) with Gallager and Berlekamp on the channel
reliability function:
Lower Bounds to Error Probability for Coding on Discrete Mernoryless
Channels
(Part I
and
Part II)
On Shannon