A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
Jimmy Soni (Author), Rob Goodman (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2018
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition View all formats and editions
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 2018
Biography
xv, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781476766690, 147676669X
1006810545
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