Description

Black and white portrait photograph of Claude Elwood Shannon posed in front of a graph drawn on a chalkboard.

Original caption release from Bell Labs Information Spectrum/Photo: : "Renowned Mathematician Claude Shannon, who postulated his famous 'information theory' just 20 years ago at Bell Telephone Laboratories, pauses after a class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is now Donner Professor of Science. Dr. Shannon still acts as a mathematics and statistics consultant to Bell Laboratories."