This juggling enthusiast for some reason built a manikin in the form of W. C. Fields that, you guessed it, could juggle.  
This juggling enthusiast for some reason built a manikin in the form of W. C. Fields that, you guessed it, could juggle.  His PhD on "An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics" was delayed by his poor marks in German.  This inventor of a rocket-powered Frisbee made a rare appearance in 1985 when Solomon Golomb accepted his namesake award.  He named one of his inventions the Thorbac, which stands for "Thrifty Roman Numeral Backward Computer".  Under the guidance of Amos Joel, this man's MIT master's thesis revived a system invented by George Boole and was hailed as the "Magna Carta of the communications age" after being published in the 1948 edition of the Bell System Technical Journal.  This man's Boston residence was known as (*) Entropy House, a nod to the namesake type of entropy he formulated.  For 10 points, name this inventor of the bit and "father of information theory".
This juggling enthusiast for some reason built a manikin in the form of W. C. Fields that, you guessed it, could juggle.  
Claude Shannon 