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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher 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
Subject(s): 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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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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