About Richard Wesley Hamming
Short biography of Richard Wesley Hamming and a couple of articles about him.
Information theory founders
Short biographies of Claude Shannon, Ronald Fisher, Harry Nyquist, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Vladimir Kotelnikov, Leon Brillouin, Andrey Kolmogorov.
Orbituary of Claude Shannon
Provides orbituary from NY Times, Feb 27 2001.
Rip Claude Shannon
Tells about the inventor's discovery of the binary system for transmitting information. Also, discusses work with artificial intelligence. Includes resource links.