claude-named-after-shannon

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Claude is named after Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory.

Summary

Claude's name comes from Claude Shannon, the mathematician who founded information theory, which ties the product's identity directly to the foundational work on how information is measured and transmitted. As a stated premise, this is a fixed fact the system treats as given when explaining the AI's naming or its thematic link to communication and encoding theory.