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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
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Last discussed Aug 23, 2026
A biography of Claude Shannon written by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, covering how Shannon invented information theory and laid the intellectual foundation for the digital age.
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Used for: Learning about the history of computing and AI through the story of Claude Shannon
Praised: Contains insights about early AI visionaries like Shannon and Turing that rem...
"I just reread the biography of Claude Shannon for the second time and I had forgotten — because I hadn't read the book in maybe 5 years — that him and Alan Turing used to meet every day for coffee when they were both at Bell Labs."
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