A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M5IJN1P |
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| Number of Pages | : | 287 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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David Wineberg said Omnivorous Curiosity. For years, I have been reading references to Claude Shannon because of his involvement in so many critical developments in science, communications, Bell Labs, and even the stock market. About his sense of humor or his riding a unicycle through Bell Labs – while juggling (a favorite hobby). And about his groundbreaking, earth-shaking realization that all communication, from voice to music to documents to photos – is all data and . Andy in Washington said The Man Who Made It All Possible. If you are reading this on any sort of electronic gadget, thank Claude Shannon. Though never as famous as some of his colleagues, Shannon was responsible for the mathematics and logic that made modern electronics possible. He was, like many geniuses, somewhat of an aloof and difficult character, and didn’t go out of his way to seek publicity.=== The Good Stuff ===* I don’t suppose there is any such thing as an “intimate po. A brilliant mind I needed to meet Jacqui Murray Despite likely being the most brilliant man you've never heard of with the most comprehensive unknown impact on the advancement of technology, Claude Shannon, star of Jimmie Sonni and Rob Goodman's A Mind at Play (Simon and Schuster 2017), was by all accounts a normal kid through high school and college. Sure, he could send Morse code with his body (you'll have to read the book to see how that's accomplished) and he had a passion for s
This is the book that finally explains Claude Shannon’s character and career as well as the context of his extraordinary life and times.” (Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation )“An avid biography full of freewheeling curiosity and fun. In this veritable labor of love by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, one has on offer an enthralling and beautifully rendered portrait of Claude Shannon, the mathematician, the engineer, the inventor, the tinkerer, and, above all, the enigmatic man who became the intellectual father of the vital lifeblood of our age: information.” (Professor Sergio Verdu, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University )“The fact that there has never been a comprehensive biography of Claude Shannon, “The Father of Information Theory,” has seemed a particularly egregious oversight as the world has hurtled further and further into the Infor
With Rob Goodman, he is the coauthor of Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar and A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.Rob Goodman is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University and a former congressional speechwriter. He has written for Slate, The Atlantic, Politico, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is a former speechwriter, and his written work and comment
It’s the story of the origins of our digital world in the tunnels of MIT and the “idea factory” of Bell Labs, in the “scientists’ war” with Nazi Germany, and in the work of Shannon’s collaborators and rivals, thinkers like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Vannevar Bush, and Norbert Wiener.And it’s the story of Shannon’s life as an often reclusive, always playful genius. It’s the story of a small-town Michigan boy whose career stretched from the