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#TodayInHistory 1916 – Claude Shannon, is born. (d 2001) Known as the "father of information theory", and laid the foundations of the Information Age. The first to describe the use of Boolean algebra—essential to all digital electronic circuits—and founded the field of #AI His work to cryptanalysis laid the foundation for symmetric-key cryptography, including Data Encryption Standard (DES), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Regarding him as the "founding father of modern #cryptography