Commentary Nervous System: Claude Shannon's Magic Mouse and the Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence More than 60 years ago, when digital computers that could do rote and automated tasks were ...

In 1950, Claude Shannon cobbled together telephone circuits to build a machine that could learn. ... Shannon’s wheeled mouse methodically explores its surroundings—a 25-square maze.

Claude Shannon in 1952 with Theseus, his electromechanical mouse, which could navigate a maze. Credit: Keystone/Getty ...

Claude Shannon (1916–2001) ... His study in Winchester, Massachusetts, was filled with such devices, including a maze-solving mechanical mouse and a miraculous juggling machine.

Dr Claude E Shannon a mathematician at the Bell Telephone Laboratories with an electronic mouse which has a 'super' memory and can learn its way round a maze without a mistake after only one ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...

In the Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N. J. lives a mechanical mouse named Theseus, the creature of Dr. Claude Shannon, Bell computer authority. It was named after the Greek ...

Why is Claude Shannon so underappreciated compared to other great thinkers of his day like Turing and Einstein? This question was originally answered on Quora by Rob Goodman.

There’s a long list of Claude Shannon contributions to technology—and that’s part of what’s so appealing about him. It would be enough to write one great paper or build one great machine ...

Claude Elwood Shannon, an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as “the father of information theory,” was born on April 30, 1916, starting a life that would bring about ...