Claude E. Shannon was born in Petoskey, MI and grew up in Gaylord, MI. After graduating from the University of Michigan with degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics in 1936, he went on to publish a series of papers that laid the foundation for modern information theory.
The University of Michigan is celebrating the 100th birthday of Claude E. Shannon, widely recognized as the father of information theory with a day-long Shannon Centennial Symposium.

Scheduled speakers:
• Abbas El Gamal, Stanford University
• Michelle Effros, California Institute of Technology
• Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University
• Robert Calderbank, Duke University

Please register at http://midas.umich.edu/shannon/