My apologies - important revision to the above comment: This famous M.S. thesis was submitted by Shannon at MIT in August 1937, not at the University of Michig

My apologies - important revision to the above comment: This famous M.S. thesis was submitted by Shannon at MIT in August 1937, not at the University of Michigan as per the parent comment. Shannon had completed dual bachelor's degrees the previous year at UMich, before attending MIT. [1][2] [1] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/34541425-MIT.pdf http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/11173/34541425... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...