My name is Steven Anderson, I was born on April 30, 1956 in, Michigan and I am an American mathematician and electrical engineer. I am one of the fathers, if not the founding father of information theory.

I studied electrical engineering and mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1982. I studied algebra for my master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I explained how to build machines to relay using algebra to describe the state of relay (1: closed, 0: open).

I have worked twenty years at MIT from 1986 to 2006 on remove trojan problematic . Parallel to my academic activities, I also worked for several research laboratories.