The Bit Player, a film about Claude Shannon
September 16th 2022, Aula Anatomica, Biology building
Claude Shannon is probably best known as the father of information theory.
Information theory sets the theoretical foundations for the formal treatment of digital information: quantification, communication and storage.
He also liked juggling: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematics-of-juggling-20170524/
and artificial intelligence - he didn't have ordinary mice in his house, his mice were maze solving robot mice!
For people who care about counting citations, his 1948 paper "A mathematical theory of communication" has over 140 000 citations.
