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Italian-American computer scientist (1917-2016)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1917 to 2016 · aged 98
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Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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1978Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
1977IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
1976Claude E. Shannon Award
1973Member of the National Academy of Engineering
1958Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
IEEE Fellow

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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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United States
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Academics
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Lived 1917 to 2016 · aged 98
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