Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age
Considered the founding father of the electronic communication age, Claude Shannon’s work ushered in the Digital Revolution. This fascinating program explores his life and the major influence his work had on today’s digital world through interviews with his friends and colleagues. [1/2002] [Science] [Show ID: 6090]
Duration : 0:29:31
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Actually, …
Actually, university’s are employers that hire H1Bs although you are right and foreign students come in on other visa types as well and then displace native by taking H1B visa slots. But, NO H1B has every made a discovery that created 85K jobs a year. H1Bs displace the Shannons which is the problem. We need more Shannons and H1Bs are driving the future Shannons out of STEM!
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
H1B is a work visa. …
H1B is a work visa. Shannon proved himself as a student, before having any in which he’d have to compete with H1B’s.
With their discoveries, people like Shannon create significantly more than 85k jobs a year.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
That’s the point. …
That’s the point. If he had had to compete with 85K+ people per year, he might have decided NOT to go to MIT and NEVER done his revolutionary work. The problem is that the future Shannon’s in America aren’t going into STEM because of the bad effects of H1B.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
@linuxguru1968: …
@linuxguru1968: Shannon never in competition with any H1B work force. He was 21 and a masters’ student at MIT when he did his first revolutionary work.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
When Shannon …
When Shannon entered university in the 1930s, the US government didn’t import 85K H1B competitors to the work force each year. The flood of H1B has caused depression of wages and shortened careers. Had H1B been around back then; he might have not entered STEM at all. The danger is that modern Shannons simply DON”T go into STEM meaning that the new innovations will NEVER HAPPEN!
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
What a silly …
What a silly argument… there will always be jobs for minds like Shannon: there is not one major tech company or university which wouldn’t want to hire at least a dozen guys of his caliber. The market for talent isn’t the same as the market for other jobs.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
>> I think that he …
>> I think that he would be able to compete with foreigners.
>> What you are suggesting is that jobs be reserved for “white people”
>> no matter how stupid. The point: he might not have even TRIED. He had an unremarkable academic background but achieved great new innovations. He would have been scared to enter STEM caused by the flood of foreign students and workersthe jobs be given to American kids whatever race as long term prospects like Claude Shannon, John Bardeen,Jack S. Kilby,Ted Hoff.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Of course, if he …
Of course, if he had been displaced by an H1B for his first jobs …we would not have modern telecommunications. Make you wonder why CS was a white American and not Indian or Chinese!
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Not really, Claude …
Not really, Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux they invent turbo codes that achieve the capacity, but Gallagar invnet LDPC code far earlier than Turbo Codes.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
I never said he was …
I never said he was God. I said he is not in because there probably is no god and no afterlife, and if there was it would be a cruel thing to torture someone for not believing in something without evidence.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Well, Shannon is …
Well, Shannon is not and will never be God. Your actions notwithstanding, the truth stands. You can fight the truth, kill it and even bury it. But the truth will rise again on the third day (as Jesus did) for Jesus is the truth! My God is not wicked. He gave everyone (including shannon) wisdom. He developed his, and I thank God for that. Yet, he is not God. Like any man, he died and so would we but God remains the same. I pray you believe now for after death, it may be too late. Regards.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Well, Shannon is …
Well, Shannon is not and will never be God. Your actions notwithstanding, the truth stands. You can fight the truth, kill it and even bury it. But the truth will rise again on the third day (as Jesus did) for Jesus is the truth! My God is not wicked. He gave everyone (including shannon) wisdom. He developed his, and I thank God for that. Yet, he is not God. Like any man, he died and so would we but God remains the same. I pray you believe now for after death, it may be too late. Regards.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
There is no such …
There is no such thing as hell, but if there was, and Shannon was there he would be satisfied in the knowledge that he isn’t as cruel as your god is.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
A great man… …
A great man…couldn’t have imagined a better world today without his discovery…..God sends some human beings to create something….Shannon is one such..
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
It’s great to see …
It’s great to see some good EE researchers like Berlekamp etc in this video. I’ve never seen them and have only read their papers:-).. One must also admit that a lot of good work on information theory these days is being done by computer scientists and physicists.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Actually Leo …
Actually Leo Szilard did some work on information theory too and you cannot discount the work of Kolmogorov etc..Yes, a lot of the pioneering work on communication theory did take place in the US particularly at the Bell labs and universities, but they did stand on the shoulders of giants in physics and mathematics.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
god is a man. god …
god is a man. god cant worship himself or a higher god so does that make him an atheist? will god go to hell?
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Excellent video. …
Excellent video. And yes, USA is the centre of Information Theory. However, the absolute achievement of Shannon’s channel capacity has been acheived by 2 French researchers :
Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux (The turbo codes)
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
He is.
He is.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Shannon is God.
Shannon is God.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Actually the …
Actually the information that you refer to is not the digital information in the sense of information theory. It has more to do with quantum mechanics and its unitarity which is called “quantum information” (unrelated to the concept of information in information theory) which leads to the holographic principle
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Great information! …
Great information! Thanks for posting.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
great vid
great vid
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Claude Shannon – …
Claude Shannon – FTW!!
November 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
thankyou
thankyou