Which American mathematician and cryptographer, considered the founder of information theory, laid the theoretical foundation for the digital age in his 1948 paper 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'?

• A Alan Turing
• B Claude Shannon ✓
• C John von Neumann
• D Norbert Wiener

Claude Shannon's work at Bell Labs created the field of information theory, introducing the bit as the fundamental unit of information and enabling all modern digital communication.