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New Delhi: Popular search engine giant Google celebrated the 100th birthday of Claude Shannon with a beautiful interactive doodle.


The visitors on the page are greeted with a dynamic doodle which is the internet giant's way of giving tribute to the American mathematician.


Google has placed a share button just below the doodle. When a user clicks on it, Google shares the doodle on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.


Claude Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer also known as "the father of information theory".


Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948.