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  • Bit Player, The
    Bit Player, The
    1 x 89'
  • Can We Save The Reef?
    Can We Save The...
    1 x 60'
  • Foreign Doctors Are Coming, The
    Foreign Doctors Are...
    1 x 60'
  • Megabuild: Roller Coaster Of Fire
    Megabuild: Roller...
    1 x 60'
  • Most Unknown, The
    Most Unknown, The
    1 x 90'
  • Rising Tide
    Rising Tide
    4 x 60'
  • Target Zero: Preventing HIV Transmission
    Target Zero:...
    1 x 60'
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Bit Player, The
Bit Player, The 1 x 89'
In a blockbuster paper in 1948, Claude Shannon introduced the notion of a “bit” and laid the foundation for the information age. His ideas ripple through nearly every aspect of modern life, influencing such diverse fields as communication, linguistics, genetics, computing, cryptography, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cosmology. But when interviewed in the 1980s, Shannon was more interested in showing off the gadgets he’d constructed - juggling robots, a Rubik’s Cube solving machine, a wearable computer to win at roulette, a unicycle without pedals, a flame-throwing trumpet - than rehashing the past. Mixing contemporary interviews, archival film, animation and dialogue drawn from interviews conducted with Shannon himself, The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.

Duration

1 x 89'

Production Company

An IEEE Information Theory Society Production

Definition

HD

YOP

2019

Production Company
An IEEE Information Theory Society Production
Definition
HD
YOP
2019

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