Robert Fano | |
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 Prof. Fano in his office at MIT in 2012 | |
| Born | Roberto Mario Fano 11 November 1917 Turin, Italy |
| Died | 13 July 2016 (aged 98) |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Known for | Fano algorithm Fano metric Fano's inequality Shannon–Fano coding Pointwise mutual information Founder of Project MAC |
| Relatives | Ugo Fano (brother) |
| Awards | IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal (1977) Shannon Award (1976) IEEE Fellow (1954) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | computer science, information theory |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Theoretical Limitations on the Broadband Matching of Arbitrary Impedances (1947) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Guillemin |
Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working lab partner to Claude Shannon, whom he admired zealously and assisted in the early years of Information Theory.[1][2]
- ^ Fano, Robert M. "The Transmission of Information : Parts [I] and II (Technical Reports 65 and 149)".
- ^ Markoff, John (13 March 2008). "Joseph Weizenbaum Dies; Computer Pioneer Was 85". The New York Times. p. 22. Retrieved 15 August 2011.