quite likely...or at least they had communicated with each other... It was von Neumann who suggested Shannon to use "entropy" as the word for the measurement o

quite likely...or at least they had communicated with each other... It was von Neumann who suggested Shannon to use "entropy" as the word for the measurement of information... http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-tinkerer-prankster-and-father-of-information-theory http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-t...