The year 2016 marked the centennial of the birth of \nClaude Elwood Shannon, that singular genius whose fertile \nmind gave birth to the field of information theory. \nIn addition to providing a source of elegant and intriguing \nmathematical problems, this field has also had a profound \nimpact on other fields of science and engineering, \nnotably communications and computing, among many \nothers. While the life of this remarkable man has been \nrecounted elsewhere, in this article we seek to provide an \noverview of his major scientific contributions and their \nlegacy in today’s world. This is both an enviable and an \nunenviable task. It is enviable, of course, because it is a \nwonderful story; it is unenviable because it would take \nvolumes to give this subject its due. Nevertheless, in the \nhope of providing the reader with an appreciation of the \nextent and impact of Shannon’s major works, we shall try.
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