Bob Souer, By: [ShoppingCartItemsAddedOnMerge] audiobook(s) were left in your cart from a previous visit, and saved to your account for your convenience. You can use the internet without understanding any of Claude Shannon's work. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. ... always playful genius. Just read it! Your mind is more likely to wander when listening to audiobooks, but by applying the methods and suggestions I am about to share, you can become an outlier and separate yourself from your competitors who are not able to fill idle time with learning. It's the story of the origins of information in the tunnels of MIT and the "idea factory" of Bell Labs, in the "scientists' war" with Nazi Germany, and in the work of Shannon's collaborators and rivals. A lot of focus is given to small details, that make me think the authors didn’t find anything else to say and had to fill the book with whatever could be connected to Shannon. Arthur Morey, The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell, By: Get instant access to all your favorite books. The biography was written by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, and published by Simon & Schuster in 2017. and others, Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves. (, The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes, Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, By: I hate to give a book about Claude Shannon an average rating, but it's only because the book is about the interesting genius that I can even muster three stars. Unique access to an exceptional genius and the very human side of a historical contributor. I was interested in this biography primarily because of the ubiquity of Shannon's theories in my field, and found that this book mostly satisfied that curiosity with the more mundane biographical elements serving as entertaining asides. $14.95/month after 30 days. Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. and others. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive color. I was really distracted from the story of Claude Shannon, which I wanted to enjoy, by the overly dramatic narration. Download and start listening now! At first concentrating on the audiobook was harder, but I've gotten used to it and now it's a great window for me to be able to "read" daily. The story goes off the deep end a little towards the end, but is still enjoyable. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. George Dyson, Narrated by: It certainly convinced me that Information Theory would probably have been better named as Information Transmission Theory. That's an issue for many children, because most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the1980s. James Gleick. By: and others. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Matthew Lyon, Narrated by: Lucid and fascinating. Katie Hafner, The authors tell us that Mr. Shannon was a genius, and I don't disagree with that at all, but I really wish that they had explained why. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community. Now, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman bring Claude Shannon's story to life. Today, 20 million people worldwide are surfing the Net. However, I can't do it on the train to and from work. By: [Jimmy Soni; Rob Goodman; Jonathan Yen] -- "Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. A prominent physicist and award-winning educator at one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges, Professor Schumacher is also a pioneer in the field of quantum information, which is the latest exciting development in this dynamic scientific field.Â, By: A Mind at Play How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (Audiobook CD) : Soni, Jimmy : "Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. Podiobooks offers a way for authors to showcase their talent for free, parcelling up their work into episodes which can be delivered via podcast or downloaded manually from the website. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Rob Shapiro, By: Born in Liverpool in 1937, Conway found fame as a barefoot Cambridge professor. With access to Shannon's family and friends, A Mind at Play explores the life and times of this singular innovator and creative genius. Gregory Zuckerman. In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. Katie Hafner, After a while my mind will wander off and I'll stop listening. Dick Estell, How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, By: By: Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. In the 1960s, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. That embraced new ideas, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1200 of whom won Nobel.. 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