Claude Shannon Foundations His mathematical theory of communication gave engineers a framework for information, noise and channel capacity. Reviewed: 2026-10-16 Claude Shannon — authored → A Mathematical Theory of Communication Date: 1948 Institutional publication history. https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/publications-and-media/publications/coding-and-compression-a-happy-union-of-theory-and-practice/ Claude Shannon — researcher at → Bell Laboratories Date: 1948 Institutional history. https://www.nokia.com/blog/with-his-seminal-paper-75-years-ago-bell-labs-icon-claude-shannon-ushered-in-the-digital-age/