Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Theseus (1950)

 
Claude Shannon demonstrates and explains the operation of  his electro-mechanical maze solving mouse machine, Theseus.




"Incidentally the things we learn for the telephone system have other applications."





Below is the YouTube link I originally included in the post. Ironically, since then the linked video has been purposely corrupted with auditory and visual noise, and is almost unwatchable. Perhaps this was done to get around copyright violations. 



2 comments:

  1. Cool!

    Claude Shannon was into juggling. Search on Shannon in this article:

    https://www2.bc.edu/~lewbel/jugweb/science-1.html.

    And see this video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHGzRxfeJY

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    1. Incidentally the things we learn about juggling have other applications :)

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