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Late great engineers: Claude Shannon - father of the Information Age
There’s an anecdote about Claude Shannon that describes the moment when the engineer was about to make an after-dinner speech at a symposium on information theory. Introduced as ‘one of the greatest scientific minds of our time’ the thin, white-haired man …