![]() ![]() It's the story of the origins of information in the tunnels of MIT and the "idea factory" of Bell Labs, in the "scientists' war" with Nazi Germany, and in the work of Shannon's collaborators and rivals. ![]() It's the story of a small-town boy from Michigan whose career stretched from the age of room-sized computers powered by gears and string to the age of the Apple desktop. ![]() Now, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman bring Claude Shannon's story to life. His work gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution. Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. ![]()
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