[GreenKeys] RIP Claude Shannon

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 08:40:54AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Not an Amateur, but...
> 
> We lost Claude Shannon on this day in 2001.  He was a mathematician,
> electrical engineer, and cryptographer; he is regarded as the "father" of
> information theory, and he pioneered digital circuit design.  Amongst other
> things he built a barbed-wire telegraph, the "Ultimate Machine" (it reached
> up and switched itself off), a Roman numeral computer ("THROBAC"), the
> Minivac 601 (a digital trainer), a Rubik's Cube solver, a mechanical mouse
> that learned how to solve mazes, and outlined a chess program.  He
> formulated the security mantra "The enemy knows the system", and did
> top-secret work in WW-2 on crypto and fire-control systems.
> 
> A busy boy...  I'd like to know more about that barbed-wire telegraph.

I hear his Masters thesis was pretty good too!

> 
> -- 
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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