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| − | '''Robert Mario Fano''' (born | + | '''Robert Mario Fano''' (born Roberto Mario Fano, 1917) is an Italian-American computer scientist, currently professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fano is known principally for his work on information theory, inventing (with [[Claude Shannon]]) Shannon-Fano coding and deriving the Fano inequality. In the early 1960s, he was involved in the development of time-sharing computers, and served as director of MIT's Project MAC from its founding in 1963 until 1968. |
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| − | * | + | * [[Information theory]] |
| − | * http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107281/1/oh165rmf.pdf | + | |
| + | ; External links | ||
| + | * [http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/107281/1/oh165rmf.pdf Oral history interview with Fano] | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fano Fano at Wikipedia] | ||
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Robert Mario Fano (born Roberto Mario Fano, 1917) is an Italian-American computer scientist, currently professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fano is known principally for his work on information theory, inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding and deriving the Fano inequality. In the early 1960s, he was involved in the development of time-sharing computers, and served as director of MIT's Project MAC from its founding in 1963 until 1968.
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