I saw a paper on ArXiV yesterday called Kalman meets Shannon, which got me thinking: in how many papers has someone met Shannon, anyway? Krish blogged about this a few years ago, but since then Shannon has managed to meet some more people. I plugged “meets Shannon” into Google Scholar, and out popped:
- Fourier: Wang and Giannakis, Wireless Multicarrier Communications: Where Fourier Meets Shannon, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2000.
- Bode: Elia, When Bode meets Shannon: control-oriented feedback communication schemes, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2004.
- Maxwell: Chakraborty and Franceschetti, Maxwell meets Shannon: Space-time duality in multiple antenna channels, Allerton 2006, and Lee and Chung, Capacity scaling of wireless ad hoc networks: Shannon meets Maxwell, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012.
- Carnot: Shental and Kanter, Shannon Meets Carnot: Generalized Second Thermodynamic Law, Europhysics Letters, 2009.
- Nash: Berry and Tse, Shannon Meets Nash on the Interference Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2011.
- Walras: Jorswieck and Mochaourab, Shannon Meets Walras on Interference Networks, ITA Workshop 2013.
- Nyqust: Chen, Eldar, and Goldsmith,
Shannon Meets Nyquist: Capacity of Sampled Gaussian Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2013. - Strang and Fix: Dragotti, Vetterli, and Blu, Sampling moments and reconstructing signals of finite rate of innovation: Shannon meets Strang–Fix, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2007.
- Blackwell and LeCam: Raginsky, Shannon meets Blackwell and Le Cam: channels, codes, and statistical experiments, ISIT 2011.
- Wiener: Forney, On the role of MMSE estimation in approaching the information-theoretic limits of linear Gaussian channels: Shannon meets Wiener, Allerton 2003, and Forney, Shannon meets Wiener II: On MMSE estimation in successive decoding schemes, Allerton 2004 and ArXiv 2004.
- Bellman: Meyn and Mathew, Shannon meets Bellman: Feature based Markovian models for detection and optimization, CDC 2008.
- Tesla: Grover and Sahai, Shannon meets Tesla: Wireless information and power transfer, ISIT 2010.
- Shortz: Efron, Shannon Meets Shortz: A Probabilistic Model of Crossword Puzzle Difficulty, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008.
- Marconi: Tse, Modern Wireless Communication: When Shannon Meets Marconi, ICASSP 2006.
- Kalman: Gattami, Kalman meets Shannon, ArXiV 2014.
Sometimes people are meeting Shannon, and sometimes he is meeting them, but each meeting produces at least one paper.
An Ergodic Walk 
“Nyquist Meets Bode on the z-Plane” (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5715188)
Triadic closure?
Someone should quickly define the Shannon number…
So many meetings! Why can’t I be at these meetings? I bet they’re fun!
I should look up my slides from an ITW talk I gave on “Meeting Shannon” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ITW.2008.4578610) for you!
Santiago Ramon y Cajal is someone I’ve had him meet: https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/1248
It is interesting to compare to how many people Shannon actually collaborated with, and how a “Shannon Number” is usually just a “Gallager Number” + 1 or sometimes a “Berlekamp Number” +1
About Shannon numbers, I wrote a thing way back for the IT Society newsletter: http://www.itsoc.org/publications/newsletters/past-newsletters/2007-newsletters/itNL0307.pdf/at_download/file (PDF, starts on page 10)
One problem is that Shannon has an Erdos number of 3 … and Erdos’s connections swamp Shannon’s. For example, my own Erdos number is smaller than my Shannon number.
Shannon Number thing I had made for that talk: http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~varshney/shannon.html
Actually I was thinking of Shannon number in terms of “A meets B” on paper titles.
For example –
Robinson Crusoe meets Walras and Keynes
D McFadden – Mimeographed, University of California at Berkeley, 1975
Competitive equilibrium: Walras meets Darwin
S Didrik Flåm, B Sandvik – Optimization, 2000 – Taylor & Francis
Thereby giving Darwin, Keynes and Robinson Crusoe a Shannon number (upper bound) of 3…