The Man Who Should Be As Famous As Einstein

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Claude Shannon is the father of Information Theory. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman’s biography called A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age https://a.co/d/5sSLUIL Chapters: 00:00 How Computers Understand 1s and 0s 0:35 Growing Up in Michigan 1:20 Boolean Logic: The Language of Computers 1:57 Building Circuits with Math 3:09 Working on the Differential Analyzer at MIT 4:15 The 1937 Master’s Thesis That Changed the World 5:15 Dabbling in Genetics 6:06 Building War Machines (SIGSALY) 7:25 Shannon Bell Labs 8:22 The Birth of Information Theory (1948 Paper) 9:07 Becoming a Celebrity Scientist 10:20 Building Theseus, an Electronic Mouse That Learned 11:01 Chess and Artificial Intelligence 11:28 Juggling, Stocks, and Curiosity 11:54 The Final Years: A Mind Lost to Alzheimer’s 13:39 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink