Robert Fano
Robert Fano · Technology & Engineering
Pioneer of information theory and data compression.
1917, Turin, Italy — 2016, Naples, Florida, USA
Italy · United States
Robert Fano is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneer of information theory and data compression.
Fano was an Italian-American computer scientist and information theorist who co-developed Shannon-Fano coding, an early data-compression method, and helped pioneer time-sharing computing at MIT's Project MAC. His work shaped both information theory and interactive computing. He came from a Jewish family (his father was the mathematician Gino Fano) and emigrated as Fascist racial laws took hold in Italy.
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Pioneer of information theory and data compression.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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