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- Newsgroups: rec.juggling
- Subject: Claude Shannon, Information Theory & Juggling
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.113840.10512@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 11:38:40 -0400
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- In perusing bionet.women.in.bio I found the following post which I thought
- readers of rec.juggling might be interested in reading, just to let you
- know that Claude Shannon is famous in other than juggling circles!
-
- Cheers!
- Christopher Majka
-
- Newsgroups: bionet.info-theory,bionet.women-in-bio
- Subject: Who is the real Claude Elwood Shannon?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.215830.610@ncsu.edu>
- From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:58:30 GMT
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Crop Science Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620
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- An article of possibly some (human) interest to readers of this group:
-
- "Claude E. Shannon"
- by John Horgan
- IEEE Sprectrum 29(4):72-75 1992
-
- .....
- "In 1985, he made an unexpected appearance at the International Information
- Theory Symposium in Brighton, England. The meeting was proceeding
- smoothly, if uneventfully, when news raced through the halls and lecture
- rooms that the snowy-haired man with the shy grin who was wandering in and
- out of the sessions was none other than Claude Shannon. Some of those at
- the conference had not even known he was still alive.
-
- "At the banquet, the meeting's organizers somehow persuaded Shannon to
- address the audience. He spoke for a few minutes and then--fearing that he
- was boring his audience, he recalled later--pulled three balls out of his
- pockets and began juggling. The audience cheered and lined up for
- autographs. Said Robert J. McEliece, a professor of electrical engineering
- at the California Institute of Technology and chairman of the symposium:
- 'It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference.' " .....
-
- Steve Modena
-
-