Claude Shannon - Father of the Information Age

[UCtelevision]

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[dfateyev]

@UCtelevision In most cases they're irrelevant (for example, in case of Berlekamp and Lucky who are seem to be lazy to pronounce words correctly.) It's the headache for me.

[dfateyev]

Does anybody have English subtitles for this video?

[R8erNation636]

This man is to thank for Internet Porno. Thank you, Mr. Shannon. You're super cool. The end.

[lazyfreedom98]

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[casortega]

great video on information theory!

[thomasey2]

The all Shannon age.

[DexterHaven49]

After 21:20, it talks about him an a stock investor.

[DexterHaven49]

An old director of adult films claims he's a sort of Einstein too, for having his eureka moment, when he invented the DP. That had a huge impact too, but not in the same league really.

[acr08807]

@DexterHaven49 You think Einstein didn't know about the DP?

[6124h4]

a tribute to Claude Shannon

though he was virtually unknown to public at large

his early works shadowed by 1940s war time of an atomic bomb

an excellent collection, thank you for uploading

he looked like Clint Eastwood so to speak

[jdhf983y4uhu]

they kept flipping the picture throughout the video which irritated me until they did it with robert lucky's hair - 8.04 - 28.22 :P

[ShNbWmN]

WTF!?!?! He met Albert Einstein!!

[Kostly]

It's called consciousness.

[vighnesh1987]

why have 5 people disliked this video?

[thegoz]

@vighnesh1987 disappointed unmotivated telecommunication students who have to learn shannon's work.

[seanbrandri]

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[js0p]

Could anyone please tell what is said at 06:00 after: "Shannon got a kick out of the answer: Einstein was asking where ??????". I can't catch what is said. Thanks.

[GhostPK]

@js0p

Einstein said "Where is the tea?"

[dharmaj1]

Thanks UCSD for putting together this presentation!! SO many people working in Telecom/Computer/Information fields are not aware of Cluade Elwood Shannon and his contributions to humanity. I was lucky to work for Bell Labs in 70's and 80's to appreciate his contributions. Who could have thought that you can do Math using electrical(electronic) device?

[NextLife77]

Claude Shannon was from Jewish family he was Jewish from Semitic root like Albert Einstein .

[RichardSproat]

Great video but one piece of misinformation at the end. The AT&T Shannon Laboratories were never Bell Labs buildings: they were only acquired (rented) by AT&T after the split between AT&T and Lucent. Prior to that they housed an office of HP.

[Jarrodmontelius]

24:36 "I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. and im rooting for the machines says the founding father of the electronic communications age." i dont know what to say to that, he was smart, but still very stupid

[2hist]

Great Video. BTW, the V1 and V2 were not operational until 1944



[UnitedWeMod]

how do you make your video up for download ?

[Aliendear]

This is a great video!

[jjpcondor]

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716) and Charles Babbage (1791 1871) have used digital logic before him

[FiverBeyond]

@jjpcondor

Well... in a way, but they could hardly be said to have made any use of AND, OR, and XOR gates, which are at the heart of digital logic.

Although I admit, this is partially just semantics.

[kwalk30]

"People said it's the most influential master's thesis in history, which is certainly true, but it understates the point." HAHAHAHAH

[kwalk30]

Thanks for posting this!

[EricQuagmire]

5 Equations that changed science (IMHO):

1: Second Newtonian law: F=ma

2: MaxwellFaraday equation: \Delta x E= - dB/dt

3: E=mc^2 -Einstein's massenergy equivalence

4: C=B x log_2(1+SNR) --Shannon-Hartley equation

5: F_{sampling} >= 2 x B ->Nyquist-Shannon theorem

No surprise that one finds Shannon twice in this list..Such was the seminal nature of his contributions..

[lds8714]

@EricQuagmire Admirable list, but I really think you should include Schrodinger's equation in there. (It's the key to all of chemistry, materials science, and solid state physics, just for starters.)

[MumblingMickey]

@EricQuagmire I'd add fishers equations on to that list too...

[MumblingMickey]

@MumblingMickey ohh and the price equations..... it'd be hard to think of a better example of a cybernetic system than price's natural selection equations....

[acr08807]

@EricQuagmire Newton's second law is just a definition. It isn't a physical law at all. All the work gets done in the first law and in the third.

[atuldpatil]

Informative indeed. I was looking for Shannon's video. Thanks for uploading.

[bernardfshannon]

Great video. I just googled Shannon out of boredom and found out about Claude Shannon. Cool!

[system0system0]

Gaylord Michigen OMG

[SylvainBerube]

What a great mind.

Merci pour ce vidéo.

[PRINCEOFGOTHDARKNESS]

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[linuxguru1968]

>> I think that he would be able to compete with foreigners.

>> What you are suggesting is that jobs be reserved for "white people"

>> no matter how stupid. The point: he might not have even TRIED. He had an unremarkable academic background but achieved great new innovations. He would have been scared to enter STEM caused by the flood of foreign students and workersthe jobs be given to American kids whatever race as long term prospects like Claude Shannon, John Bardeen,Jack S. Kilby,Ted Hoff.

[linuxguru1968]

Of course, if he had been displaced by an H1B for his first jobs ...we would not have modern telecommunications. Make you wonder why CS was a white American and not Indian or Chinese!

[anfedorov]

What a silly argument... there will always be jobs for minds like Shannon: there is not one major tech company or university which wouldn't want to hire at least a dozen guys of his caliber. The market for talent isn't the same as the market for other jobs.

[linuxguru1968]

When Shannon entered university in the 1930s, the US government didn't import 85K H1B competitors to the work force each year. The flood of H1B has caused depression of wages and shortened careers. Had H1B been around back then; he might have not entered STEM at all. The danger is that modern Shannons simply DON"T go into STEM meaning that the new innovations will NEVER HAPPEN!

[anfedorov]

@linuxguru1968: Shannon never in competition with any H1B work force. He was 21 and a masters' student at MIT when he did his first revolutionary work.

[linuxguru1968]

That's the point. If he had had to compete with 85K+ people per year, he might have decided NOT to go to MIT and NEVER done his revolutionary work. The problem is that the future Shannon's in America aren't going into STEM because of the bad effects of H1B.

[anfedorov]

H1B is a work visa. Shannon proved himself as a student, before having any in which he'd have to compete with H1B's.

With their discoveries, people like Shannon create significantly more than 85k jobs a year.

[linuxguru1968]

Actually, university's are employers that hire H1Bs although you are right and foreign students come in on other visa types as well and then displace native by taking H1B visa slots. But, NO H1B has every made a discovery that created 85K jobs a year. H1Bs displace the Shannons which is the problem. We need more Shannons and H1Bs are driving the future Shannons out of STEM!

[legendwarrior85]

A great man...couldn't have imagined a better world today without his discovery.....God sends some human beings to create something....Shannon is one such..

[yamuboy]

It's great to see some good EE researchers like Berlekamp etc in this video. I've never seen them and have only read their papers:-).. One must also admit that a lot of good work on information theory these days is being done by computer scientists and physicists.

[yamuboy]

Actually Leo Szilard did some work on information theory too and you cannot discount the work of Kolmogorov etc..Yes, a lot of the pioneering work on communication theory did take place in the US particularly at the Bell labs and universities, but they did stand on the shoulders of giants in physics and mathematics.

[koutote]

Excellent video. And yes, USA is the centre of Information Theory. However, the absolute achievement of Shannon's channel capacity has been acheived by 2 French researchers :

Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux (The turbo codes)

[seraphx123]

Not really, Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux they invent turbo codes that achieve the capacity, but Gallagar invnet LDPC code far earlier than Turbo Codes.

[koutote]

Gallager is one of the giants...However the iterative concept and the first codes approached the Shannon's capacity are the Turbo Codes

and 20years after they are still the best around codes.....History has already wrote down the

French names....

[cwjcwjcwj]

@seraphx123 Yes, Gallager invented LDPC earlier but not a capacity approaching code during that time. This until the invention of iterative decoding which is used in turbo code. Just to make the history clear enough....

[madiator1]

Shannon is God.

[asfesesease]

He is.

[yamaha893]

god is a man. god cant worship himself or a higher god so does that make him an atheist? will god go to hell?

[danytibi]

There is no such thing as hell, but if there was, and Shannon was there he would be satisfied in the knowledge that he isn't as cruel as your god is. ;)

[danytibi]

I never said he was God. I said he is not in hell because there probably is no god and no afterlife, and if there was it would be a cruel thing to torture someone for not believing in something without evidence.

[EasyPayEasyWay]

Great information! Thanks for posting.

[vincentg88]

great vid

[xaozxaoz]

Claude Shannon - FTW!!

[Claire1Rogers]

thankyou

[18bcarlson]

Equaly as important is the application of information to black hole thermodynamics. This gives rise to the Holographic Principle as given by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Susskind, and Jacob Beckinstien.

[kat1523]

Actually the information that you refer to is not the digital information in the sense of information theory. It has more to do with quantum mechanics and its unitarity which is called "quantum information" (unrelated to the concept of information in information theory) which leads to the holographic principle

[houdavid]

A wonderful video.  Thanks for posting it!

[VonNeuman2008]

Thanks for uploading

[leukskywalker]

Simply amazing!

[trombone7]

This was great. Thank you for posting this. I'm just getting into Information Theory.

[GERONAMI]

Thank you and God bless you

[estamira]

Excellent! Thank you for bringing it to You tube. I had problems to view it with Real Player.