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The Mathematician Who Started the Digital Revolution | Newsthink

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The Mathematician Who Started the Digital Revolution 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 Brilliant people shaping our world. Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star! Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly. - ------------------------- ---------- Keywords: neuralink, scientific revolution, tech history, albert einstein, paypal mafia, physics, entrepreneurs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

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