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Subject: Re: Claude Shannon

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 08:33:48 02/27/01

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On February 27, 2001 at 10:00:48, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>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.

Thanks for the post.



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