Warren Weaver
(1894-1978)
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. He was one of the pioneers of machine translation and an important figure in creating support for science in the United States. He was director of the Division of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (1932–55) and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1944. He was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1954 and chairman of the board in 1955.
When Claude Shannon's 1948 articles on communication theory were republished in 1949 as
The Mathematical Theory of Communication, the book was also republished as a much shorter article authored by Weaver, which discussed the implications of Shannon's more technical work for a general audience.
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