In what century did Claude Shannon live?
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Claude Shannon was born in 1916 and died in 2001. This means that he lived in the 20th century. Shannon was a mathematician and engineer who is considered to be the father of information theory. He developed a mathematical theory of communication that laid the foundation for the development of digital computers and the Internet.
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