Yup. If you checkout the wikipedia page on huffman coding you'll see that David Huffman got his idea while in an information theory class with Robert Fano. Fa

Yup. If you checkout the wikipedia page on huffman coding you'll see that David Huffman got his idea while in an information theory class with Robert Fano. Fano had worked with Shannon (the inventor of information theory) to develop a similar coding, but Huffman was able to develop a provably better system.