Robert Fano
Robert M. Fano ’41, ScD ’47 Ford Professor of Engineering, emeritus Best known for his work on information theory and co-inventing Shannon-Fano coding, Robert Fano also helped develop time-sharing computers. A member of the MIT faculty since 1947, Professor Fano worked on microwave components and filters at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, led the Radar Techniques Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and served as director of MIT’s Project MAC (now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL).
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