Italian-American computer scientist (1917-2016) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist. He was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He was born in Turin, Italy.
Robert Fano | |
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![]() Prof. Fano in his office at MIT in 2012 | |
Born | Roberto Mario Fano 11 November 1917 |
Died | 13 July 2016 98) | (aged
Citizenship | United States of America |
Alma mater | MIT |
Known for | Shannon-Fano coding, founder of Project MAC |
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 |
He was known principally for his work on information theory, inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon–Fano coding[2] and deriving the Fano inequality. He also invented the Fano algorithm and postulated the Fano metric.[3]
Fano died on 13 July 2016 at the age of 98.[4]
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