Robert Fano | Academic Influence

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Robert Fano

Computer Science

#189

World Rank

#196

Historical Rank

#114

USA Rank

Database

#4585

World Rank

#4764

Historical Rank

#710

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working lab partner to Claude Shannon, whom he admired zealously and assisted in the early years of Information Theory.

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Robert Fano's Published Works

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Transmission of Information: A Statistical Theory of Communications. (1961) (996)
Computer-Mediated Communication (1984) (670)
Theoretical limitations on the broadband matching of arbitrary impedances (1950) (627)
A heuristic discussion of probabilistic decoding (1963) (513)
Transmission of Information. (1962) (261)
Electromagnetic Fields, Energy, and Forces (1968) (173)
Electromagnetic Energy Transmission and Radiation (1968) (171)
Short‐Time Autocorrelation Functions and Power Spectra (1950) (76)
The MAC system: the computer utility approach (1965) (62)
Time-Sharing on Computers (1966) (49)
The social impact (Project MAC) (1992) (32)
The Information Theory Point of View in Speech Communication (1950) (31)
Microwave Filters Using Quarter-Wave Couplings (1947) (23)
A Theory of Impulse Noise in Telephone Networks (1977) (19)
A note on the solution of certain approximation problems in network synthesis (1950) (18)
Signal-to-noise ratio in correlation detectors (1951) (16)
The Computer Utility and the Community (1992) (15)
Retrospectives I: the early years in computer graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, and Harvard (1989) (12)
Note on the Efficiency of Radiation Shields (1947) (10)
The Project MAC interviews (1992) (9)
Transmission of Information, A Statistical Theory of Communications (1965) (8)
The MAC System: A Progress Report (1992) (7)
Lifelong Cooperative Education (1985) (7)
The statistical theory of information (1959) (6)
Fano inequality (2008) (5)
Project MAC (time-sharing computing project) (1992) (5)
Transverse Electromagnetic Waves (1968) (3)
On the social role of computer communications (1972) (2)
Plane Waves in Lossless Media (1968) (2)
Oral history interview with Robert M. Fano (1989) (1)
The challenge of digital communication (Edtl.) (1958) (1)
On a class of transfer functions suitable for video networks (1950) (1)
A short-time correlator for speech waves (1951) (1)
Modern Electronic Techniques Applied to Physics and Engineering (1947) (1)
Plane Waves in Dissipative Media (1968) (1)
Steady-State Waves on Lossless Transmission Lines (1968) (0)
Quasi-Static Fields and Distributed Circuits (1968) (0)
Traveling Waves on Dissipative Transmission Lines (1968) (0)
Natural Oscillations, Standing Waves, and Resonance (1968) (0)
On Diffraction and Focusing in Anisotropic Crystals (1972) (0)
THE MAC SYSTEM: A PROGRESS REPORT INTRODUCTION The notion of machine-aided cognition implies an intimate col- laboration between a human user and a computer in a real-time dialogue on the solution of a problem, in which the two parties (2013) (0)
Transient Waves on Lossless Transmission Lines (1968) (0)
Some thoughts on technical meetings (Corresp.) (1955) (0)
1948 THEORETICAL LIMITATIONS ON THE BROADBAND MATCHING OF ARBITRARY IMPEDANCES by (0)
Lumped-Circuit and Field Concepts (1968) (0)
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider: March 11, 1915-June 26, 1990 (1998) (0)
Elements of Radiation (1968) (0)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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