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Fano was known principally for his work on information theory. He developed Shannon–Fano coding [12] in collaboration with Claude Shannon, and derived the Fano inequality. He also invented the Fano algorithm and postulated the Fano metric. [13] In the early 1960s, Fano was involved in the development of time-sharing computers.
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Manny Castañeda, Filipino actor (Sic O'Clock News, Makiling), director and screenwriter. [687] Jean-Pierre Descombes, 76, French television host, complications from Parkinson's disease. [688] Gilbert Desmet, 93, Belgian professional cyclist. [689] Bobby Grier, 91, American college football player (Pittsburgh Panthers). [690]
Fano's inequality can be interpreted as a way of dividing the uncertainty of a conditional distribution into two questions given an arbitrary predictor. The first question, corresponding to the term H b ( e ) {\displaystyle H_{b}(e)} , relates to the uncertainty of the predictor.
Michel Fano (born 1929), French serialist composer Robert Fano (1917–2016), Italian-American computer scientist Ugo Fano (1912–2001), Italian-American physicist
Larry King, American TV host, was mistakenly believed to have died on December 20, 2012, when news of the death of playwright Larry L. King was announced, prompting confusion. King died on January 23, 2021. [271] Wayne Knight, an American actor, was reported dead in a motor vehicle accident on March 16, 2014. After being made aware of the ...