Description

Claude Elwood Shannon holds up a photograph of Saturn.

Original caption: "Science Trailblazer -- Dr. Claude E. Shannon, who will receive a Science Trailblazer Award in Detroit on October 17, admires a space probe image of Saturn made possible in large part by his development of Information Theory - a series of mathematical formulations that are the basis for design and study of advanced telephone and computer systems. He developed the theory in 1948 at AT&T Bell Laboratories. October 10, 1986", Original credit line: "AT&T Photo E-7379B(12-83)"