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According to the article, the original research on language model was kick started by Claude Shannon's early contributions in Markov chain model of English words.

If you are in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) there are hardly any area in the field which their fundamentals do not have Shannon's hands in it.

Leonard Kleinrock once remarked that he has to focus on the exotic queuing theory field that later leads to the packet switching and then Internet because most of the fundamentals problems in electrical and computer engineering (older version of ICT) have already been solved by Shannon.