Bibliograph

A mind at play, how Claude Shannon invented the information age, by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

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Label

A mind at play, how Claude Shannon invented the information age, by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A mind at play

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

962009552

Responsibility statement

by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

Sub title

how Claude Shannon invented the information age

Table Of 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

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