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Claude Shannon Summary
Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer who laid the theoretical foundations for digital circuits and information theory, a mathematical communication model. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1936 with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and electrical
Steve Wozniak Summary
Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer who cofounded, with Steve Jobs, Apple Computer and designed the Apple II, the first commercially successful personal computer. Wozniak—or “Woz,” as he is commonly known—is the son of an electrical engineer for the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company
Jack Kilby Summary
Jack Kilby was an American engineer and one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, a system of interconnected transistors on a single microchip. In 2000, Kilby was a corecipient, with Herbert Kroemer and Zhores Alferov, of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Kilby was the son of an electrical
Vladimir Zworykin Summary
Vladimir Zworykin was a Russian-born American electronic engineer and the inventor of the iconoscope and kinescope television systems. Zworykin studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, where from 1910 to 1912 he assisted physicist Boris Rosing in his experiments with a television