Shannon’s insights also laid the groundwork for digital computing, showing how logical statements could be translated into the language of 1’s and 0’s.īut beyond his innovative research, Shannon was a tinkerer and inventor whose hobbies ranged from customized unicycles to juggling robots to one of the first chess-playing computers. It’s thanks to Shannon that we have the concept of the “bit” (the basic unit of information), digital compression, and strategies to encode and transmit information flawlessly between any two given points. Shannon’s creation of information theory made the modern digital world possible.
And, relative to his contributions, he may have been one of the most unheralded. “Since retiring from MIT, I have been getting into all kinds of mischief, for instance, trying to become a poet.”Ĭlaude Shannon, who was born 103 years ago today, was one of the most influential scientific geniuses of the 20th century. In addition to the 103 quotes in the original, we added one from a hand-written letter Dr. By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni, co-authors, A MIND AT PLAYĮDIT: We updated the following post for Claude Shannon’s 104th birthday on April 30th, 2020.
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