The question is fitting for Rec.Sport.
Who is Claude Elwood Shannon?
Hint: Bell Labs.
A dead white guy.
The inventor of a juggling robot 
A founding member of the Unicycling Society of America.
Early big wheel rider
A review of the NY Times book review this Sunday said: Claude Elwood Shannon was a very eccentric theoretician who amused himself by juggling while riding a unicycle up and down the long Bell Labs corridors.
The review goes on: He had the insight to understand complex circuits that contained many on-of switches was through Boolean algebra, which assigned each operation a value of either 0 or 1. Shannon went on to develop information theory in which all communications and sequences of information could be measured in the number o binary digits (*), known as bits, they required… This was one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century …
anyone have any ideas why they call him “a very eccentric” theoretician?
Well, I can’t imagine what a mainstream theoretician would be like, so I suppose that there’s no choice but to call all theoreticians eccentric, eh?
He also juggles and unicycles… But that’s not eccentric to us.
Invented a theorem of communication channel capacity. Not sure if that’s the answer you were after - I used to be a radio comms engineer!
Could it be … a SLUR against the MINORITY GROUP of uni jugglers!!! 
I want credit for the first, right answer. Tell me, Billy, was Claude one of the 1%?
Unfortunately, Greg, that is not the answer we were looking for.
Everyone else is a winner!
Thanks for playing!:)
That’s OK. Few people are looking for a correct answer.
The correct answer is not always the truth, Greg. Most people are, in fact, looking for the correct answer.