From Telephones to Chess: How Claude Shannon Communicated Through Machines
“Claude Shannon.” Estate of Francis Bello. No date.
Through his construction of playful, intelligent machines, Claude Shannon created the unprecedented concepts of information theory and communication technology, setting the foundation for modern digital computing.
"I don’t think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes... I was more motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together. Or what laws or rules govern a situation, or if there are theorems about what one can’t or can do. Mainly because I wanted to know myself."
- Claude Shannon
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