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07/30/2001 Archived Entry: "30-July-2001 -- Claude Shannon:Reluctant Father of the Digital Age"

Claude Shannon: Reluctant Father of the Digital Age (MIT Technology Review) -- "The entire science of information theory grew out of one electrifying paper that Shannon published in 1948, when he was a 32-year-old researcher at Bell Laboratories. Shannon showed how the once-vague notion of information could be defined and quantified with absolute precision. He demonstrated the essential unity of all information media, pointing out that text, telephone signals, radio waves, pictures, film and every other mode of communication could be encoded in the universal language of binary digits, or bits—a term that his article was the first to use in print. Shannon laid forth the idea that once information became digital, it could be transmitted without error."

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