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This Research Guide has been created by the Library staff to provide supplemental reading and research resources to accompany the lecture, "From Bits to Qubits: A Celebration of Claude Shannon, Father of the Information Age".
Sponsored by Stevens Institute of Technology and the IEEE History Center, this event featured a historical perspective of Claude Shannon by Stevens’ President Nariman Farvardin and a panel discussion with Stevens faculty that examined Claude Shannon's legacy and influence on today’s powerful technologies.
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 9:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M
TechFlex Auditorium, University Center Complex, Stevens Institute of Technology
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by 
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age by In 1948, Claude Shannon discovered that all communication channels have a fundamental limit in the capacity they can transmit. This law – later known as the Shannon Limit – radically changed the trajectory of communication theory. Researchers have spent decades trying to achieve, then go beyond, this limit. This is the story of a eureka moment. The best minds from different fields coming together to test the limits of Shannon’s theory for optical transmission, and in so doing, bringing this visionary into the present to define the future again.
