TY - BOOK AU - Soni, Jimmy AU - Soni, Jimmy AU - Goodman, Rob TI - A Mind at Play : : how Claude Shannon invented the information age SN - 9781476766690 U1 - 003.540 SON PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - : Simon & Schuster, KW - Computer Science KW - Systems KW - Shannon, Claude Elwood, -- 1916-2001 KW - Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography KW - Information theory KW - Biography and Autobiography - Science & Technology KW - Electrical engineers N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -