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Subject: Claude Shannon

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 07:00:48 02/27/01

Hi,
Claude Shannon has passed away.  Shannon was one of the true greats of the
'first age' of computing, and amoung his many contributions was the first real
paper on how a computer might play chess.

http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html

Thanks to SlashDot for the news and link.

Peter

p.s. Don Bradman (greatest cricket player ever, daylight second) also passed
away a couple of days ago.

Re: Claude Shannon Pete Galati 12:03:09 02/27/01
Re: Claude Shannon Christophe Theron 09:59:06 02/27/01
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  - Re: Claude Shannon Robert Hyatt 10:33:52 02/28/01
    - Re: Claude Shannon Pete Galati 19:11:21 02/28/01
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        Re: Claude Shannon José Antônio Fabiano Mendes 11:40:43 03/02/01
        
        Mechanical computers was Re: Claude Shannon Elizabeth Schwartz 08:52:30 03/02/01
Re: Claude Shannon Will Singleton 08:33:48 02/27/01

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