Google celebrates Claude Shannon's 100th birthday with an interactive doodle!

Zee Media Bureau

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.