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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.
Robert Fano, 98, Italian-born American computer scientist. [207] Hollis L. Harris, 84, American airline executive, CEO of Continental Airlines (1990–1991) and Air Canada (1992–1996), President of Delta Air Lines (1987–1990). [208] Claude Le Ber, 85, French racing cyclist. [209] El Lebrijano, 74, Spanish flamenco singer. [210]
His brother, Robert Fano, was an eminent professor emeritus of electrical engineering at MIT. Fano's cousin, Giulio Racah , made great contributions to the quantum theory of angular momentum (well known as Racah algebra), and wrote a concise monograph with Fano on the subject ( Irreducible Tensorial Sets , 1959).
Unfortunately, Shannon–Fano coding does not always produce optimal prefix codes; the set of probabilities {0.35, 0.17, 0.17, 0.16, 0.15} is an example of one that will be assigned non-optimal codes by Shannon–Fano coding. Fano's version of Shannon–Fano coding is used in the IMPLODE compression method, which is part of the ZIP file format ...
Robert Fano – physicist – Italian-Jewish refugee; Ugo Fano – physicist – Italian-Jewish refugee; Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – a Romanian American progenitor and paradigm founder in economics, whose work was seminal in establishing ecological economics – fled when the communists took power in Romania in 1948.
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.
In 1963, Lee accepted a one-year appointment to work on Project MAC, a time-sharing Multiple Access Computer being developed at MIT under the direction of Robert Fano. [9] Fano launched Project MAC with a 6-week summer session that drew 57 people (including Lee) from universities, industry, and government for brainstorming and collaboration. [10]
Kailath was born in 1935 in Pune, Maharashtra, India, to a Malayalam-speaking Syrian Christian family named Chittoor. [4] His parents hailed from Kerala.He studied at St. Vincent's High School, Pune and received his engineering Bachelor's degree from the Government College of Engineering, the University of Pune in 1956.