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[E1] Eugene Chiu, Jocelyn Lin, Brok Mcferron, Noshirwan Petigara, Satwiksai Seshasai, Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon, 6.933J/STS.420J The Structure of Engineering Revolutions, MIT, 2001
[E1] C.E.Shannon, Letter to Vannevar Bush, February 16, 1939
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/ebooks/bookPdfWithBanner.jsp?fileName=5311546.pdf&bkn=5271069&pdfType=chapter
 
[E2] John R. Pierce, Looking Back - Claude Elwood Shannon, IEEE Potentials, December 1993
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=282341
 
[E3] Eugene Chiu, Jocelyn Lin, Brok Mcferron, Noshirwan Petigara, Satwiksai Seshasai, Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon, 6.933J/STS.420J The Structure of Engineering Revolutions, MIT, 2001
http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/Shannon1.pdf
http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/Shannon1.pdf


[E2] Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, The Historic Conceptualization of Information: A Critical Survey, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 30(1), 66-81
[E4] Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, The Historic Conceptualization of Information: A Critical Survey, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 30(1), 66-81
http://pages.uoregon.edu/koopman/courses_readings/phil123-net/intro/Geoghegan_HistoriographicConception_information.pdf
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Docket #:2015-09

This Proposal has been approved, and is now a Milestone


To the proposer’s knowledge, is this achievement subject to litigation?


Is the achievement you are proposing more than 25 years old? Yes

Is the achievement you are proposing within IEEE’s designated fields as defined by IEEE Bylaw I-104.11, namely: Engineering, Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Biological and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Technical Communications, Education, Management, and Law and Policy. Yes

Did the achievement provide a meaningful benefit for humanity? Yes

Was it of at least regional importance? Yes

Has an IEEE Organizational Unit agreed to pay for the milestone plaque(s)? Yes

Has an IEEE Organizational Unit agreed to arrange the dedication ceremony? Yes

Has the IEEE Section in which the milestone is located agreed to take responsibility for the plaque after it is dedicated? Yes

Has the owner of the site agreed to have it designated as an IEEE Milestone? Yes


Year or range of years in which the achievement occurred:

1939-1967

Title of the proposed milestone:

Development of Information Theory, 1939-1967

Plaque citation summarizing the achievement and its significance:


200-250 word abstract describing the significance of the technical achievement being proposed, the person(s) involved, historical context, humanitarian and social impact, as well as any possible controversies the advocate might need to review.


IEEE technical societies and technical councils within whose fields of interest the Milestone proposal resides.


In what IEEE section(s) does it reside?

IEEE Boston Section

IEEE Organizational Unit(s) which have agreed to sponsor the Milestone:

IEEE Organizational Unit(s) paying for milestone plaque(s):

Unit: Information Theory Society
Senior Officer Name: Michelle Effros

IEEE Organizational Unit(s) arranging the dedication ceremony:

Unit: Information Theory Society
Senior Officer Name: Michelle Effros

IEEE section(s) monitoring the plaque(s):

IEEE Section: Boston Section
IEEE Section Chair name: Fausto Molinet

Milestone proposer(s):


Please note: your email address and contact information will be masked on the website for privacy reasons. Only IEEE History Center Staff will be able to view the email address.

Street address(es) and GPS coordinates in decimal form of the intended milestone plaque site(s):

32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139 Lattitude, Longitude 42.3618641, -71.0905626 N42° 21' 42.711, W71° 5' 26.025

Describe briefly the intended site(s) of the milestone plaque(s). The intended site(s) must have a direct connection with the achievement (e.g. where developed, invented, tested, demonstrated, installed, or operated, etc.). A museum where a device or example of the technology is displayed, or the university where the inventor studied, are not, in themselves, sufficient connection for a milestone plaque.

Please give the address(es) of the plaque site(s) (GPS coordinates if you have them). Also please give the details of the mounting, i.e. on the outside of the building, in the ground floor entrance hall, on a plinth on the grounds, etc. If visitors to the plaque site will need to go through security, or make an appointment, please give the contact information visitors will need.


Are the original buildings extant?


Details of the plaque mounting:


How is the site protected/secured, and in what ways is it accessible to the public?


Who is the present owner of the site(s)?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

What is the historical significance of the work (its technological, scientific, or social importance)? If personal names are included in citation, include justification here. (see section 6 of Milestone Guidelines)


What obstacles (technical, political, geographic) needed to be overcome?


What features set this work apart from similar achievements?


Supporting texts and citations to establish the dates, location, and importance of the achievement: Minimum of five (5), but as many as needed to support the milestone, such as patents, contemporary newspaper articles, journal articles, or chapters in scholarly books. 'Scholarly' is defined as peer-reviewed, with references, and published. You must supply the texts or excerpts themselves, not just the references. At least one of the references must be from a scholarly book or journal article. All supporting materials must be in English, or accompanied by an English translation.

Thesis:

[A1] C.E.Shannon, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, Master's Thesis http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/34541425-MIT.pdf?sequence=2

[A2] C.E.Shannon, An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics, Doctoral Thesis http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11174/34541447-MIT.pdf?sequence=2

Scholarly Journal Articles:

[B1] C.E.Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, The Bell System Technical Journal, volume 27, pp.379-423, 623-656, July, October, 1948 http://worrydream.com/refs/Shannon%20-%20A%20Mathematical%20Theory%20of%20Communication.pdf

[B2] C.E.Shannon, Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems, The Bell System Technical Journal, volume 28, pp.656-715, October, 1949 http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/wiki/files/shannon1949.pdf

[B3] C.E.Shannon, Communication in the Presence of Noise, Proceedings of the IRE, volume 37, No.1, pp. 10-21, January, 1949 http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee104/shannonpaper.pdf

[B4] J.R.Pierce, The Early Days of Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol IT-19, No.1, pp. 3-8, January, 1973 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1054955

[B5] F.Ellersick, A Conversation with Claude Shannon, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.22 No.5, May, 1984 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1091957

[B6] Sergio Verdú, Fifty Years of Shannon Theory, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol.44, No. 6, pp. 2057-2078, October, 1998 http://www.princeton.edu/~verdu/reprints/IT44.6.2057-2078.pdf

[B7] Wilfried Gappmair, Claude E.Shannon: the 50th Anniversary of Information Theory, IEEE Communications Magazine, April, 1999 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=755458

[B8] Samuel W. Thomsen, Some Evidence Concerning the Genesis of Shannon's Information Theory, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 40 (2009) 81-91 http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0039368108001143/1-s2.0-S0039368108001143-main.pdf?_tid=ef7f753e-316f-11e5-9091-00000aacb361&acdnat=1437679433_91e28c707ddff6fa12a9cf89ced468e8

Books:

[C1]

[C2]

News Articles:

[D1] http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/401112/claude-shannon-reluctant-father-of-the-digital-age/

[D2] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-claude-shannon-b-1916-bit-player.html

Miscellaneous:

[E1] C.E.Shannon, Letter to Vannevar Bush, February 16, 1939 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/ebooks/bookPdfWithBanner.jsp?fileName=5311546.pdf&bkn=5271069&pdfType=chapter

[E2] John R. Pierce, Looking Back - Claude Elwood Shannon, IEEE Potentials, December 1993 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=282341

[E3] Eugene Chiu, Jocelyn Lin, Brok Mcferron, Noshirwan Petigara, Satwiksai Seshasai, Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon, 6.933J/STS.420J The Structure of Engineering Revolutions, MIT, 2001 http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/Shannon1.pdf

[E4] Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, The Historic Conceptualization of Information: A Critical Survey, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 30(1), 66-81 http://pages.uoregon.edu/koopman/courses_readings/phil123-net/intro/Geoghegan_HistoriographicConception_information.pdf

Supporting materials (supported formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, DOC): All supporting materials must be in English, or if not in English, accompanied by an English translation. You must supply the texts or excerpts themselves, not just the references. For documents that are copyright-encumbered, or which you do not have rights to post, email the documents themselves to ieee-history@ieee.org. Please see the Milestone Program Guidelines for more information.


Please email a jpeg or PDF a letter in English, or with English translation, from the site owner(s) giving permission to place IEEE milestone plaque on the property, and a letter (or forwarded email) from the appropriate Section Chair supporting the Milestone application to ieee-history@ieee.org with the subject line "Attention: Milestone Administrator." Note that there are multiple texts of the letter depending on whether an IEEE organizational unit other than the section will be paying for the plaque(s).

Please recommend reviewers by emailing their names and email addresses to ieee-history@ieee.org. Please include the docket number and brief title of your proposal in the subject line of all emails.