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Claude Elwood Shannon

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1940

Dissertation: An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics

Advisor: Frank Lauren Hitchcock

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Ernst, Heinrich	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1962
Sutherland, Ivan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1963	4
Sutherland, William	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1966
Hillis, William	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1981

According to our current on-line database, Claude Shannon has 4 students and 8 descendants.
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