: how Claude Shannon invented the information age Soni, Jimmy creator Soni, Jimmy Goodman, Rob text New York : Simon & Schuster @2017 monographic eng

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xv, 366p. 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm 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. 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. / Jimmy Soni Computer Science Systems Shannon, Claude Elwood, -- 1916-2001 Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography Information theory Biography and Autobiography - Science & Technology Electrical engineers 003.540 SON 9781476766690 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 220509 20220509104951.0