The Man Who Brought Us Code

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 18, 2017

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman share how 20th-century mathematician, electrical engineer and cryptographer Claude Shannon laid the groundwork for digital communication. In their latest book, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, they follow Shannon's work at MIT and Bell Labs from tinkering with flame-throwing trumpets to compressing messages into digital code.

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