01100100 years since the birth of Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon loved to drive to Las Vegas to play blackjack with his wife Betty and a colleague on the weekend. They were not too lazy and even developed the first wearable computer to deal with "card counting" (High-Low method).


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Today, April 30, 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth. Together with the company Edison , congratulations to the founder of the theory of information . By the way, Shannon is a distant relative of Thomas Edison .

Under the cut a few interesting achievements of the birthday.

“Symbolic Analysis of Relays and Switches” (A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits)

“Perhaps the most important, as well as the most famous master’s work of the century”
- Howard Gardner

An article written on the basis of Shannon's master's work in 1937.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits
PDF (72 English pages)

"Algebra for theoretical genetics" (An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics)

Shannon's doctoral thesis in 1940.
PDF (74 pages in English)

Cryptography

He worked on devices for detecting enemy aircraft and targeting anti-aircraft installations, he also developed cryptographic systems, including government communications, which provided Churchill and Roosevelt talks across the ocean.

Proved that the one-time notebook is a system with absolute cryptographic security (but, as history has shown, it is in crooked hands and it has vulnerabilities).

Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
PDF (60 pages)

Bit

In 1948, he suggested using the word "bit" to denote the smallest unit of information (in the article " Mathematical theory of communication ").
PDF

Shannon Mouse

In 1950 he created a mouse-robot with the beginnings of artificial intelligence, which could go through a maze.
Details here .

Minivac 601

In 1961, Shannon created from logic switches and relays "computer", for teaching businessmen how computers work. This device could win in tic-tac-toe.

Useless machine

Implemented the concept of Marvin Minsky - "useless car."

Juggling

To keep the mind in good shape, Shannon was engaged in juggling and even wanted to build robots jugglers. He proved several mathematical theorems related to juggling.

1987

Omni: Do you find it depressing that chess computers are getting so strong?
Shannon: I am not depressed by it. I am rooting for the machines! I have always been on the machines' side. Ha-ha!

Omni: Does it bother you that computers are getting stronger in chess?
Shannon: Not worried. I am “sick” for cars! I will always be on the side of cars. Haha

PS
“We can’t control it. We can’t control it. ”
- Claude Shannon