25 Feb
2018
25 Feb
'18
3:45 p.m.
Re: RIP Claude Shannon
Never heard of Claude Shannon. So a good opportunity
to do some
searching reading to 'catch up'.
Shannon did some amazing work. My field is Information science and without Shannon, it
would be a dull field indeed. His masters thesis laid out an elegant use of digital logic
for switching systems that we take for granted today, his mathematical theory of
communication, while dense, is foundational - ever heard of a bit?, and he actually loved
juggling so much he created a juggling machine - what’s not to love? :) All that said, he
was also in the right place at the right time and was surrounded by genius.
Will