Claude Elwood Shannon papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 7000
Subjects: Correspondence; Computer chess; Computers; Telecommunication; Information theory; Games; Data processing; Computer games; Bell Telephone Laboratories
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, notes, scientific papers, drawings, diagrams, graphs, computer game, and other papers relating chiefly to Shannon's development of the field of information theory and its relation to other scientific and technical fields and to the humanities.  Includes material pertaining to his work at Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey.  Also documents his interest in computer programming of chess and other games.  Correspondents include Merle M. Andrew, William Ross Ashby, Edmund Callis Berkeley, Vincent P. Biunno, Hendrik W. Bode, Gordon Stanley Brown, John William Campbell, James U. Casby, Kevin Dowling, Peter Elias, Dennis Flanagan, Merrill Meeks Flood,  Dennis Gabor, L. Ron Hubbard, Stephen Cole Kleene, Edward Lasker, David N. L. Levy, Anthony F. Liversidge, John McCarthy, Edward F. Moore, John Robinson Pierce, Emanuel R. Piore, G. Baley Price, Carl Sagan, Edwin S. Shneidman, David Singmaster, Julius Adams Stratton, A. M. Uttley, John Von Neumann, and Warren Weaver.
Notes: Open to research.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Mary E. Shannon, 2001.

Mathematician, information theorist, and computer scientist.  Died 2001.

Collection material in English.

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