shannonbiologist: Claude Shannon: Biologist

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) Three Machines (1963) Oil on canvas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; copyright Wayne Thiebaud/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY., reproduced with permission. The image was obtained from http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/newthismonth/walrobinson2-1-16.asp

• shannonbiologist: the paper
  
  
  • BiBTeX reference:

    @article{Schneider.shannonbiologist2006,
    author = "T. D. Schneider",
    title = "{Claude Shannon: Biologist}",
    journal = "IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine",
    volume = "25",
    number = "1",
    pages = "30--33",
    year = "2006"}
    

  • Claude Shannon: biologist - The founder of information theory used biology to formulate the channel capacity at

    • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine (requires subscription).
    • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Volume: 25 Issue: 1 Date: Jan.-Feb. 2006

  • shannonbiologist: Claude Shannon: Biologist at PubMed Central.

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• shannonbiologist: The Quiz
  
  In a blown up image of the gumball figure, I measured the diameter of one gumball as 6 mm and the diameter of the glass sphere as 51 mm.
  1. What is the maximum number of gumballs that could be in each machine? (Answer)
  2. If these gumballs represented a communications system, how many bits do they represent? (Answer)

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