Internet History Podcast

171. Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory

Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory." In the pantheon of cool people who made the modern information era possible, he’s right up there. Today, we’re going to talk about Shannon’s life with Jimmy Sony and Rob Goodman, authors of a great biography of the man called <a href="https://amzn.to/2L1jYqb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Mind At Play, How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age</a>. Especially you software engineers out there, if you don’t know who Claude Shannon was, get educated. You owe your livelihood to this man.<a href="https://amzn.to/2L1jYqb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buy the book!</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.