== Claude Shannon == 

 Sorry not to have expressed myself clearly enough. I'm not saying anything about Claude Shannon, nor am I wanting to denigrate his achievement. My point is solely about the way his thesis is described in the article. A thesis is basically several pieces of paper with writing on them, and as such cannot "implement" anything. In his thesis he proposed (for the first time) the implementation of a new type of circuit. The implementation (soldering components together to implement the circuit Shannon proposed) came later. One doesn't have to have a background in computing (which, by the way, I have) to make this distinction. If you can show that he not only wrote his thesis but also submitted a working ciruit, then that's another matter, of course, but even then it wasn't the thesis which did the implementing but Shannon himself. It's about the words, not the circuit. OK?