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Portrait or photograph of Claude Shannon: Claude Elwood Shannon

Virtual Memorial

Claude Shannon

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Claude Shannon, remembered for Information theory, Mathematics, Electrical engineering.

1916 - 2001Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Portrait or photograph of Claude Shannon: The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age by Paul J. Nahin Of cou
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age by Paul J. Nahin Of course I had to have it - since I had been given a gift certifica brewbooks from near Seattle, USA, Science at Village Books, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Claude Shannon Is Remembered

Claude Shannon is remembered for information theory, mathematics, electrical engineering. This public memorial page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why the figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive biography, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Claude Shannon.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial because it is connected to Claude Shannon's life, work, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

Photos

Portrait or photograph of Claude Shannon: This is the statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs. The Wikipedia article says it was sculpted by Eugene Da

This is the statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs. The Wikipedia article says it was sculpted by Eugene Daub.

BobTheBryan, Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Claude Shannon: This is the statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs. The Wikipedia article says it was sculpted by Eugene Da

This is the statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs. The Wikipedia article says it was sculpted by Eugene Daub.

BobTheBryan, Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Image connected to Claude Shannon: waveform of real Shannon wavelet

waveform of real Shannon wavelet

Hmo, Own work, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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