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By this definition Claude Shannon (the father of Information Theory) clearly deserves a Nobel in Physics. The central concept in Information Theory is Entropy w

by lr1970 2y ago

By this definition Claude Shannon (the father of Information Theory) clearly deserves a Nobel in Physics. The central concept in Information Theory is Entropy which is defined literally the same way as in Physics. And Shannon's Information Theory clearly revolutionized our life (tele-communications) much more than Hopfield network or Hinton's Boltzmann machine.

drpossum 2y ago
Fun historical fact: Claude Shannon did win the Noble prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize#Recipients https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize#Recipients
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- elashri 2y ago
  That's different local prize by the American society of civil engineers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize
  - drpossum 2y ago
    Yes. That's the joke.
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    - hnfong 2y ago
      [party pooping] It would have been better delivery if you said "a Nobel prize" instead of "the".
      - thw09j9m 2y ago
        Noble != Nobel
        hnfong 2y ago
        Ah my bad.
  - 77pt77 2y ago
    Still more of a Nobel Prize than the one for Economics.
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- lr1970 2y ago
  In 1939 Claude Shannon won the "wrong" Nobel prize -- The Alfred Noble Prize award presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers [0]. It causes a lot of confusion. Claude Shannon never won a "real Nobel". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize EDIT: typos