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171. Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory

2018/5/27
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Internet History Podcast

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Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory." In the pantheon of cool people who made the modern information era possible, he’s right up there. Today, we’re going to talk about Shannon’s life with Jimmy Sony and Rob Goodman, authors of a great biography of the man called A Mind At Play, How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age). Especially you software engineers out there, if you don’t know who Claude Shannon was, get educated. You owe your livelihood to this man.

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