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For five years, we lived with one of the most brilliant people on the planet. Sort of. See, we spent those all-consuming five years writing our biography of American mathematician Claude Shannon, whose work in the 1930s and ’40s earned him the title of “father of the information age.” That’s how long it took us to understand the influence of the most important genius you’ve never heard of, a man whose intellect was on par with that of Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. During that time, we spent more time with the deceased Claude Shannon than we have with many of our

Insights on work from the life of mathematician Claude Shannon, the most influential figure you've never heard of.

Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon Lunes, 19 Octubre 2020 04:01 LTE/4G technology promises to revolutionize lunar surface communications by delivering reliable, high data rates while containing power, size and cost. Communications will be a crucial component for NASA's Artemis program, which will establish a sustainable presence on the Moon by the end of the decade. Espoo, Finland – Nokia has announced further details after being named by NASA as a partner to ad...

December 19th, 2020 Bell Telephone Labs The modern world would be a pale shade of itself if not for the myriad foundational technologies developed at the Bell Telephone Labs. Its engineers invented the transistor and photovoltaic cell, charge-coupled devices, frickin’ lasers — even Unix and the C++ programming language. Those same engineers also worked with some of the Cold War era’s most influential artists — including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Yvonne Rainer — to create a wholly new style of artistic expression. In his new book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers ...