Claude Elwood Shannon was born on April 30, 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, USA.

The German Information Theory Society Section Chapter, together with Prof. Han Vinck and the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT), is organizing a Claude Elwood Shannon 100th Birthday Celebration at the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, Germany on May 3-4, 2016.

For more information, please navigate to:
http://www.lnt.ei.tum.de/en/events/claude-elwood-shannons-100th-birthday-celebration/