Claude the chatbot is named after Claude Shannon, MIT's father of information theory
MIT_CSAIL · x · 2026-09-25
MIT shared an Anthropic lore tidbit: the Claude chatbot is named after Claude Shannon, the renowned MIT professor (SM '40, PhD '40, faculty 1956–1978) widely known as the father of information theory and modern digital communications.
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