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Robert Fano
Italian-American computer scientist
- Life
- 1917 – 2016
- Born
- November 11, 1917
- Died
- July 13, 2016
- Nationality
- United States
Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working lab partner to Claude Shannon, whom he admired zealously and assisted in the early years of information theory.
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