{"id":438,"date":"2016-05-07T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T06:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/discretemaths\/?p=438"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:38:35","slug":"438","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/2016\/05\/07\/438\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Shannon Centenary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday the 6th May the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash hosted the Claude Shannon Centenary Celebration<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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There were several short talks about Shannon’s life and work.<\/p>\n

– Jamie Evans [Melbourne Uni] The life and times of Claude Elwood Shannon.
\n– Shampa Shahriyar [FIT, Monash] How Claude Shannon\u2019s master thesis changed our world
\n– Jonathan Keith [Maths, Monash] Shannon\u2019s PhD: An algebra for theoretical genetics
\n– Michael Brand [FIT, Monash] What is information?
\n– Amin Sakzad [FIT, Monash] Lossless data compression: a practical example
\n– Yi Hong [ECSE, Monash] Shannon\u2019s noisy-channel coding theorem
\n– Kevin Leckey [Maths, Monash] The fundamental theorem for noisy channels: Shannon\u2019s probabilistic proof
\n– Ron Steinfeld [FIT, Monash] Shannon and cryptography
\n– Graham Farr [FIT, Monash] Prediction and entropy of printed English
\n– David Dowe [FIT, Monash] Shannon\u2019s influence on machine learning
\n– Alan Dorin [FIT, Monash] On automata and chess
\n– Graham Farr [FIT, Monash] Shannon\u2019s switching game
\n– Rebecca Robinson [FIT, Monash] The Shannon capacity of a graph
\n– Michael Wybrow [FIT, Monash] Theseus the maze-solving mouse
\n– Burkard Polster [Maths, Monash] Juggling robots and theorems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday the 6th May the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash hosted the Claude Shannon Centenary Celebration. There were several short talks about Shannon’s life and work. – Jamie Evans [Melbourne Uni] The life and times of Claude Elwood Shannon. – Shampa Shahriyar [FIT, Monash] How Claude Shannon\u2019s master thesis changed our world – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}