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His Masters thesis from MIT is quite interesting as well. He was working on analog computers at the time and came up with ways to use electromechanical arrays
by raffi 17y ago
His Masters thesis from MIT is quite interesting as well. He was working on analog computers at the time and came up with ways to use electromechanical arrays to solve Boolean algebra problems--inventing the digital circuit as we know it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_an...
- ableal 17y agoThanks for that link. I'm partial to Shannon's digital logic work, and the references in that page lead to the full scan of his seminal M.S. dissertation (a 3MB bitmap PDF here: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173 http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173 . Non MIT-affiliated visitors only get a 'non-printable' version, but different PDF readers ... are worth trying.) There's also a Jan. 1948 paper, "The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits", Bell System Technical Journal, vol.28, pp.59-98. I don't think there's a PDF of that on the loose.