Comments on: Claude Shannon – Father of the Information Age

By: atujaycee

atujaycee — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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.

By: danytibi

danytibi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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.

By: legendwarrior85

legendwarrior85 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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..

By: yamuboy

yamuboy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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.

By: yamuboy

yamuboy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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.

By: yamaha893

yamaha893 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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?

By: koutote

koutote — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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)

By: asfesesease

asfesesease — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

He is.
He is.

By: madiator1

madiator1 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

Shannon is God.
Shannon is God.

By: kat1523

kat1523 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0000

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