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Claude Shannon: The Juggling Poet Who Gave Us the Information Age

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He will never have the name recognition of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but Claude Shannon did every bit as much to wire the world. And his sense of play was highly contagious.

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
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Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

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