Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age
March 6, 2010 | 
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Considered the founding father of the electronic communication age, Claude Shannon’s work ushered in the Digital Revolution. This fascinating program explores his life and the major influence his work had on today’s digital world through interviews with his friends and colleagues. [1/2002] [Science] [Show ID: 6090]
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This is a great …
This is a great video!
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Well.. …
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Well… in a way, but they could hardly be said to have made any use of AND, OR, and XOR gates, which are at the heart of digital logic.
Although I admit, this is partially just semantics.
Gottfried Wilhelm …
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 – 1716) and Charles Babbage (1791 1871) have used digital logic before him
“People said it’s …
“People said it’s the most influential master’s thesis in history, which is certainly true, but it understates the point.” HAHAHAHAH
Thanks for posting …
Thanks for posting this!
@seraphx123 Yes, …
@seraphx123 Yes, Gallager invented LDPC earlier but not a capacity approaching code during that time. This until the invention of iterative decoding which is used in turbo code. Just to make the history clear enough….
5 Equations that …
5 Equations that changed science (IMHO):
1: Second Newtonian law: F=ma
2: MaxwellFaraday equation: \Delta x E= – dB/dt
3: E=mc^2 -Einstein’s massenergy equivalence
4: C=B x log_2(1+SNR) –Shannon-Hartley equation
5: F_{sampling} >= 2 x B ->Nyquist-Shannon theorem
No surprise that one finds Shannon twice in this list..Such was the seminal nature of his contributions..
Informative indeed. …
Informative indeed. I was looking for Shannon’s video. Thanks for uploading.
Great video. I just …
Great video. I just googled Shannon out of boredom and found out about Claude Shannon. Cool!
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Gaylord Michigen OMG
What a great mind.
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What a great mind.
Merci pour ce vidéo.
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Gallager is one of …
Gallager is one of the giants…However the iterative concept and the first codes approached the Shannon’s capacity are the Turbo Codes
and 20years after they are still the best around codes…..History has already wrote down the
French names….
Actually, …
Actually, university’s are employers that hire H1Bs although you are right and foreign students come in on other visa types as well and then displace native by taking H1B visa slots. But, NO H1B has every made a discovery that created 85K jobs a year. H1Bs displace the Shannons which is the problem. We need more Shannons and H1Bs are driving the future Shannons out of STEM!
H1B is a work visa. …
H1B is a work visa. Shannon proved himself as a student, before having any in which he’d have to compete with H1B’s.
With their discoveries, people like Shannon create significantly more than 85k jobs a year.
That’s the point. …
That’s the point. If he had had to compete with 85K+ people per year, he might have decided NOT to go to MIT and NEVER done his revolutionary work. The problem is that the future Shannon’s in America aren’t going into STEM because of the bad effects of H1B.
@linuxguru1968: …
@linuxguru1968: Shannon never in competition with any H1B work force. He was 21 and a masters’ student at MIT when he did his first revolutionary work.
When Shannon …
When Shannon entered university in the 1930s, the US government didn’t import 85K H1B competitors to the work force each year. The flood of H1B has caused depression of wages and shortened careers. Had H1B been around back then; he might have not entered STEM at all. The danger is that modern Shannons simply DON”T go into STEM meaning that the new innovations will NEVER HAPPEN!
What a silly …
What a silly argument… there will always be jobs for minds like Shannon: there is not one major tech company or university which wouldn’t want to hire at least a dozen guys of his caliber. The market for talent isn’t the same as the market for other jobs.
>> I think that he …
>> I think that he would be able to compete with foreigners.
>> What you are suggesting is that jobs be reserved for “white people”
>> no matter how stupid. The point: he might not have even TRIED. He had an unremarkable academic background but achieved great new innovations. He would have been scared to enter STEM caused by the flood of foreign students and workersthe jobs be given to American kids whatever race as long term prospects like Claude Shannon, John Bardeen,Jack S. Kilby,Ted Hoff.
Of course, if he …
Of course, if he had been displaced by an H1B for his first jobs …we would not have modern telecommunications. Make you wonder why CS was a white American and not Indian or Chinese!
Not really, Claude …
Not really, Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux they invent turbo codes that achieve the capacity, but Gallagar invnet LDPC code far earlier than Turbo Codes.
I never said he was …
I never said he was God. I said he is not in because there probably is no god and no afterlife, and if there was it would be a cruel thing to torture someone for not believing in something without evidence.
Well, Shannon is …
Well, Shannon is not and will never be God. Your actions notwithstanding, the truth stands. You can fight the truth, kill it and even bury it. But the truth will rise again on the third day (as Jesus did) for Jesus is the truth! My God is not wicked. He gave everyone (including shannon) wisdom. He developed his, and I thank God for that. Yet, he is not God. Like any man, he died and so would we but God remains the same. I pray you believe now for after death, it may be too late. Regards.
Well, Shannon is …
Well, Shannon is not and will never be God. Your actions notwithstanding, the truth stands. You can fight the truth, kill it and even bury it. But the truth will rise again on the third day (as Jesus did) for Jesus is the truth! My God is not wicked. He gave everyone (including shannon) wisdom. He developed his, and I thank God for that. Yet, he is not God. Like any man, he died and so would we but God remains the same. I pray you believe now for after death, it may be too late. Regards.