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robert m. fano 1917–2016 BY DANIELA RUS ROBERTO MARIO FANO, computing pioneer and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died July 13, 2016, in Naples, Florida.
Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 Juli 2016) adalah seorang ilmuwan komputer Italia-Amerika dan profesor teknik kelistrikan dan ilmu komputer di Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
INTERVIEWER: So this is the Infinite History interview with professor Robert Fano. I guess I'd like to start by asking you where you were born and where you grew up? FANO: I was born in Torino, Italy on November 11, 1917, exactly one year before the end of World War I. And I was raised there. I left Torino in 1939 when I was still 21. And I ...
Feb 25, 2023 · Robert Fano (1917-2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He was an early collaborator of Claude Shannon and made important contributions to information theory, including the Fano algorithm and Shannon-Fano coding.
Robert Fano, computing pioneer and founder of CSAIL, dies at 98. WAdam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL July 15, 2016
Dr. Robert M. Fano was Ford Professor of Engineering, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in June, 1984. He organized MIT's Project MAC (now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) in 1963 and was its Director until September 1968.
Around 1948, both Claude E. Shannon (1948) and Robert M. Fano (1949) independently proposed two different source coding algorithms for an efficient description of a discrete memoryless source. Unfortunately, in spite of being different, both schemes became known under the same name Shannon–Fano coding. There are several reasons for this mixup.
