Event Details
January 01, 1949
Description
Warren Weaver introduces Shannon's work to a broad readership.
Participants (2)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Shannon | person | 58 | View Entity |
| Warren Weaver | person | 10 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document is page 110 of a text (likely a history of science book or manuscript) detailing the intellectual history of cybernetics and information theory. It focuses on Norbert Wiener's concerns about military secrecy during the Cold War/McCarthy era and his adoption of Claude Shannon's entropy-based definition of 'information.' The page bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016913' stamp, indicating it was part of a document dump for a Congressional investigation, though the text itself is purely academic/historical in nature.
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