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A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (1936) [pdf]
- andars 10y agoAnd thus the boolean algebra entered digital circuit design. Shannon was such a boss.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoYeah, I'd say Shannon's master thesis was the start of the modern computing era.
- olewhalehunter 10y agoor herald of a dark age of network technology (in no way am I insulting Shannon) there are problems that come up in web development that were solved by electrical engineers 100 years ago
- jpt4 10y agoExamples, if you please? I am very interested, as computer science (broadly speaking) seems to be a field in which, with higher incidence than might be expected, the ancients knew certain things better (or knew fewer worse things) than the present.
- chas 10y agoNot web development per se, but Clos Networks[0] were originally designed for telephone systems and re-emerged in large datacenter networks[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network [1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43837.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43837.html
- blueatlas 10y agoThe book "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation"[1] is a must read for those interested in Shannon and the history of Bell Labs. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797/ https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovatio...
- espeed 10y agoRobert Gallager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Gallager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Gallager) talk at MIT on Claude Shannon, "the most important master's thesis ever written": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neA0NJNUEfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neA0NJNUEfM
- Odenwaelder 10y agoImagine the pain this guy went through when typesetting this thesis. All Hail TeX!