Who is Claude Shannon and how the father of information theory laid the foundation of AI and the internet

Claude Shannon, known as the Father of Information Theory, transformed the modern digital world through his groundbreaking 1937 thesis and 1948 paper that defined how information is measured and transmitted. His work on Boolean logic, cryptography, and entropy laid the foundation for computers, encryption, and AI. From building early learning machines like Theseus to shaping modern machine learning concepts, Shannon’s ideas continue to power today’s technologies, including the internet, mobile communication, and artificial intelligence systems.