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Summary
This document is page 116 of a larger text, stamped with 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016919', indicating it is part of a congressional investigation (likely related to Epstein's ties to scientific funding/institutions like MIT). The text itself is a historical narrative detailing the origins of digital computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It focuses on the work of Claude Shannon at MIT and Bell Labs, and John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study, specifically covering the transition from analog to digital systems, error correction thresholds, and the exponential scaling of data processing.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Claude Shannon | Scientist/Researcher |
Graduate student at MIT, worked at Bell Labs; laid foundations for the digital revolution and digital logic.
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| Vannevar Bush | Scientist/Supervisor |
Oversaw Shannon at MIT; associated with the Differential Analyzer.
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| John von Neumann | Scientist/Mathematician |
Cameo in 'The Human Use of Human Beings'; seminal role in digitizing computation; met Shannon at Princeton.
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| Norbert Wiener | Author/Scientist |
Referred to as 'Wiener'; implied author of 'The Human Use of Human Beings'.
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Organizations (4)
Timeline (3 events)
1937
Shannon wrote his master's thesis showing how electrical circuits could evaluate logical expressions.
MIT
1948
Shannon showed that communicating with symbols rather than continuous quantities changes behavior (Digital Communications).
Bell Labs
1952
Von Neumann presented a result corresponding to Shannon's for computation regarding reliable computing with unreliable devices.
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Locations (1)
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Relationships (2)
As a graduate student at MIT, he worked for Vannevar Bush on the Differential Analyzer.
they had met at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton
Key Quotes (4)
"He was laying the foundations for the digital revolution."Source
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"Shannon’s frustration with the difficulty of solving problems this way led him in 1937 to write what might be the best master’s thesis ever."Source
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"This exponential decrease in communication errors made possible an exponential increase in the capacity of communication networks."Source
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"That’s what makes it possible to have a billion transistors in a computer chip, with the last one as useful as the first one."Source
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Quote #4
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