A Mind at Play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age / Jimmy Soni

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Soni, Jimmy

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Zafaa Books & Distributors | :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, @2017Description: xv, 366p. 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781476766690

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DDC classification:

003.540 SON

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Books	SNU LIBRARY	003.540 SON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Books Shifted in Mathematics Dept	28694

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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.

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