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A mind at play : how...
MARC Display
A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age / Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
ISBN:
9781476766683
(hc.)
9781476766690 (pbk.)
Description:
xv, 366 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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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