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Robert Fano
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Prof. Fano in his office at MIT in 2012
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Roberto Mario Fano
11 November 1917 |
| Died | 13 July 2016 (aged 98) |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Known for | Shannon-Fano coding, founder of Project MAC |
| Awards | IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (1977) Shannon Award (1976) IEEE Fellow (1954) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | computer science, information theory |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Theoretical Limitations on the Broadband Matching of Arbitrary Impedances (1947) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Guillemin |
Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist. He was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Turin, Italy.
He was known principally for his work on information theory, inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon–Fano coding and deriving the Fano inequality. He also invented the Fano algorithm and postulated the Fano metric.
Fano died on 13 July 2016 at the age of 98.
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