How Information Got Re-Invented(nautil.us)
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How Information Got Re-Invented
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Claude Shannon's wife Betty doesn't even get a mention. If you have so much detail about how he behaved when he was thinking, there's no reason to minimize her role. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/betty-shannon-un...
The book goes into a lot more depth about her importance to his life and work. Between her and what I learned about Klara von Neumann in the book Turing's Cathedral I've become very interested in the roles of the wives of the important men of our field. It's a shame they get so left out of most histories.
It's an excerpt from the same book by the same two authors, who are promoting it in another publication with another focus. It's missing in this article, which is focussing on the theory, not on his life, but it's in the books big picture. Maybe they had it in there and pitched an exclusive piece to different magazines? Who knows.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.
Ok, that makes sense. It just seemed odd to have so much information from his girlfriend and then not a word about his wife.
Actually it looks like the reason is purely chronological:
This article is about the research and live events following up to the publication of his seminal work A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948 and ends there.
He met his wife Betty in '48 after most of this already happened.
This article is about the research and live events following up to the publication of his seminal work A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948 and ends there.
He met his wife Betty in '48 after most of this already happened.
If you want to read some German. Dietmar Dath's Skye Boat song is a more fictional hommage to Shannon.
http://literaturkritik.de/id/4437
http://literaturkritik.de/id/4437
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I wonder what they consider "the birth of the information age"? The Lyons Electronic Office (first business computer)? The US Social Security Administration (the first mechanized, nationally centralized data processing service at scale)? Early Hollerith systems? Pneumatic tubes?
I wonder what they consider "the birth of the information age"? The Lyons Electronic Office (first business computer)? The US Social Security Administration (the first mechanized, nationally centralized data processing service at scale)? Early Hollerith systems? Pneumatic tubes?
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sed -i '/./{/<script/,/<\/script/d;}' x.htmIt's about Shannon 1948 and (interestingly) its precursors.
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I've started reading the book this is excerpted from: A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
It's very well written.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8701960-the-information