Interesting guy who mixed binary with digit to coin the term “bit”, and who went on to become the founding father of information theory. He also seems like a quirky hacker type, building robot mice for maze navigation, a juggling machines, a rubik’s cube solving machine, and getting over on Las Vegas with his math chops.
(Via Wired.)
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