Gaylord -- Ann Arbor -- The room-sized brain -- MIT -- A decidedly unconventional type of youngster -- Cold Spring Harbor -- The labs -- Princeton -- Fire control -- A six-day workweek -- The unspeakable system -- Turing -- Manhattan -- The utter dark -- From intelligence to information -- The bomb -- Building a bandwagon -- Mathematical intentions, honorable and otherwise -- Wiener -- A transformative year -- TMI -- "We urgently need the assistance of Dr. Claude E. Shannon" -- The man-machines -- The game of kings -- Constructive dissatisfaction -- Professor Shannon -- Inside information -- A gadgeteer's paradise -- Peculiar motions -- Kyoto -- The illness -- Aftershocks.
"The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded."--
Ämnesord
Matematiker (sao)
Ingenjörer (sao)
Informationsteori (sao)
Information theory. (LCSH)
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)
Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)