April 30, 1916: Information Theory, Who's Your Daddy?
1916: Claude Elwood Shannon, the father of information theory and the man who coined the term bit, is born. Shannon was educated at the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent most of his career working for Bell Labs. Shannon’s 1938 master’s thesis, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, […]
Claude Shannon's clever electromechanical mouse, which he called Theseus, was one of the earliest attempts to "teach" a machine to "learn" and one of the first experiments in artificial intelligence.
