September 11, 2008
There are only 10 kinds of people..
Mutilated/simplified from a question sent in by sidsen.
Identify this alpha geek of the 20th century.
Cracked by: Achilles , Rc , srikar , Goyal , shenoyvarun86 , Phani , sangoman , Ajay Parasuram , Kamal Rathi , gammafunction , svgreatest , Dibyo , Rohan , duriel , Atul Mathew , udupendra , malcaluffin , Rahul , Neeraj , Hercules , jayanth.
Answer:
Claude Shannon


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September 11th, 2008 at 10:49 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221173391 )
Claude Shannon,with his famous electromechanical mouse Theseus.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:57 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221173865 )
Claude Shannon
In the picture, Shannon and his famous electromechanical mouse Theseus (named after Theseus from Greek mythology) which he tried to have solve the maze in one of the first experiments in artificial intelligence. [Copied and pasted from Wikipedia page :P]
September 11th, 2008 at 10:59 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221173986 )
Gregory Chaitin? The one who defined the Chaitin’s constant (Omega)
September 11th, 2008 at 11:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221175384 )
Claude Shannon – playing with Theseus
September 12th, 2008 at 12:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221179245 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 2:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221188160 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 3:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221190518 )
Claude Shannon – responsible for upwards of 90% of all RF communications in the world
September 12th, 2008 at 3:36 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221190603 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 4:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221194266 )
Claude Shannon.This picture shows him with his electromechanical mouse Theseus
September 12th, 2008 at 4:41 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221194475 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 5:36 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221197801 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 6:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221200434 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 6:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221201119 )
claude shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 8:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221209215 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 12:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221222070 )
Claude Shannon
September 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221222890 )
I’ll instead answer what I surmise must have been Sid Sen’s original question. Claude Shannon’s electromechanical mouse is called Theseus after the mythological hero who cracks a maze.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221224447 )
claude shannon…information theory guru..seen with thesus the AI mouse.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221226898 )
Claude Shannon – dead giveaway with the maze!
September 12th, 2008 at 2:36 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221230194 )
Claude E Shannon and the title refers to his work with switching circuits using relays and their analysis using boolean algebra.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:57 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221256668 )
Claude Shannon with his electromechanical mouse.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1221261890 )
claude shannon..
September 13th, 2008 at 12:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221266635 )
@udupendra: No, he wanted to know about the unit.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:38 am, GMT +0000 ( 1221802730 )
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