Quotes About Shannon

One day over lunch at the lab, Turing exclaimed playfully to his colleagues, "Shannon wants to feed not just data to a brain, but cultural things! He wants to play music to it!

In modern terms we would say that the more strongly correlated the measurements, the less information, in Shannon's precise sense, a Bertillon card conveys.

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

Oliver Cromwell chose not to bring his marauders over here because one of his generals had reported that the country west of the Shannon contained "not enough water to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him.

second does. But it is also necessary to distinguish Shannon information from information that performs a function or conveys a meaning. We must distinguish sequences of characters that are (a) merely improbable from sequences that are (b) improbable and also specifically arranged so as to perform a function. That is, we must distinguish information-carrying capacity from functional information. So

Hosting Undisputed' has been an amazing experience and an exciting chapter in my career working with Skip and Shannon each weekday morning.

Forever echoed in their favor. "Never say never", she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never.

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and he wrote in spiral notebooks.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

This was the first time anyone suggested the genome was an information store measurable in bits. Shannon's guess was conservative, by at least four orders of magnitude.

Shannon used a phrase he had never used before: "information theory.

This equivalence wasn't discovered until the 1930s, most notably by Claude Elwood Shannon (born 1916), whose famous 1938 M.I.T. master's thesis was entitled "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits.

His development plans were all set in a united Ireland context. The rivers Erne and Bann lie in the Six Counties but in 1922 Collins was writing about methods which would,'utilise the water-power of the Shannon, the Erne, the Bann and the Liffey.

Claude E. Shannon, who first enunciated the theory, "was able to define channel capacity for continuous signals such as music and speech.

The father of information theory, Claude Shannon (1916–2001),

Radical Homemakers, Shannon Hayes describes

Micro fortunes were made every day at Port Shannon. And more were lost.

Information, as narrowly defined by Shannon, concerns the predictability of a message source. In the real world, however, information is something that is analyzed for meaning, that is remembered and combined with other information, and that produces results or actions. In short, information is processed via computation.

But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.