02005nam a22003017a 4500 20220509104951.0 220509b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781476766690 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 :ZBD0124 :02/05/2022 003.540 SON 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 1424 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. Computer Science Systems Shannon, Claude Elwood, -- 1916-2001. Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography. Information theory. Biography and Autobiography - Science & Technology. Electrical engineers. Soni, Jimmy Goodman, Rob BOOK 59177 59177 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2022-05-09 Zafaa Books & Distributors 1424.00 003.540 SON 28694 2022-05-09 00:00:00 2022-05-09 BOOK Books Shifted in Mathematics Dept