BY Gul Nazir Khan § Information processing theory-Claude Shannon § Information processing § Short term memory § Long term memory § Mnemonic memory devices. BIOGRAPHY : Shannon was born in Petoskey , Michigan , on April 30, 1916 . He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1936 with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering. In 1940 he earned both a master's degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Claude Shannon was a founder of information theory. He combined mathematical theory with engineering principles to get the stage for the development of digital computer. The term bit, today used to describe an individual unit of information processed by a computer was coined from Shannon's research in 1940.He published a mathematical theory of communication in the bell system technical journal(1948)
