Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fano Robert Fano, computing pioneer and founder of CSAIL, dies at 98 Professor emeritus helped launch field of information theory and developed early time-sharing computers. http://news.mit.edu/2016/robert-fano-obituary-0715