> Does anyone seriously believe that Shannon's contributions to the foundations of computing stand so far above others'? Not far above but he's right there wit

> Does anyone seriously believe that Shannon's contributions to the foundations of computing stand so far above others'? Not far above but he's right there with Church and Turing. Church and Turing laid the foundations to computer science. You could argue shannon gave us computer engineering. Shannon created information theory and his proof of equality between electric circuits and boolean algebra is the foundation of physical computing today. All modern computing devices go back to his proof and his adder. Shannon tied the electrical ( circuits ) with the mathematical ( boolean algebra ) ( which one could argue is computer engineering ).