Information is everywhere. Not only in the things you read and hear in the media, or in the tools you use to navigate through the world (such as the maps or street signs that help guide you), but it ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...

Claude Elwood Shannon, an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as “the father of information theory,” was born on April 30, 1916, starting a life that would bring about ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s ...

Information theory, developed by Claude Shannon, revealed that information is a measurable physical quantity and laid the mathematical foundation for every digital technology we use today.