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Soni, Jimmy

A Mind at Play How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - New York Simon & Schuster 2017 - xv, 366 p

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

Chronicles the life and times of the lesser-known Information Age intellect, revealing how his discoveries and innovations set the stage for the digital era, influencing the work of such collaborators and rivals as Alan Turing, John von Neumann and Vannevar Bush

ISBN: 9781476766683 (PB)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Electrical engineers United States Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science & Technology

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 929 / SON