Claude Shannon
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"Claude Elwood Shannon" was an U.S./American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".

Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948. However, he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis or dissertation/thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of boolean algebra (logic)/boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his basic work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.

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By staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

I just wondered how things were put together.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

Use the word cybernetics, Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.