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Soni, Jimmy

A Mind at Play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age / Jimmy Soni - New York : Simon & Schuster, @2017 - xv, 366p. 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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: 9781476766690

Publisher. No.: Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Computer Science
Systems
Shannon, Claude Elwood, -- 1916-2001.
Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Information theory.
Biography and Autobiography - Science & Technology.
Electrical engineers.

Dewey Class. No.: 003.540 SON