[Ground-station] Fwd: Invitation to Online Premier of Shannon Film

[Robert McGwier]

I cannot wait for the Shannon Movie.

He is responsible for turning George Boole's math into gates as a student
in Michigan and then went to MIT to work as a graduate student for his PhD
advised by Vannevar Bush.

He is one of the most important applied mathematicians/engineers of the
20th century.

Bob


On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 1:07 AM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> We couldn't do any of what we do without Information Theory!
>
> Check out this upcoming event from the Information Theory Society of IEEE.
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: IEEE Information Theory Society <oe at itsoc.org>
> Date: Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 10:51 PM
> Subject: Invitation to Online Premier of Shannon Film
> To: <w5nyv at yahoo.com>
>
>
> As part of ISIT2020, the Shannon documentary The Bit Player will be
> streamed online for the first time.
> Free Online Screening of The Shannon Movie — Friday, June 26
>
> The Information Theory Society proudly invites you to the online premiere
> of *The Bit Player*, the first feature documentary about the father of
> the information age, Claude Shannon.
>
> Mixing contemporary interviews, archival film, animation, and dialogue
> drawn from interviews conducted with Shannon himself, *The Bit Player
> <https://itsoc.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ee15312b4b2802698e57bb971&id=8f8dd808f1&e=dd09add411>*
> tells the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but
> never lost his childlike curiosity, and the ubiquitous impact of his
> discoveries on today’s science and technology.
>
> The film will be streamed for free through Zoom as part of ISIT2020 on
> Friday, June 26 at 11:15 am Pacific Time and will be followed by a panel
> discussion with Shannon’s MIT colleague Robert Gallager, film director Mark
> Levinson (*Particle Fever*), renowned information theorist David Tse and
> moderator Urbashi Mitra.
> Go to the ISIT 2020 Web Site
> <https://itsoc.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ee15312b4b2802698e57bb971&id=31f1891cbf&e=dd09add411>
>
> The screenings will celebrate the end of the 2020 International Symposium
> on Information Theory. This year, participation in the symposium is free
> for Society members, and you are welcome to join us and watch some of the
> talks
> <https://itsoc.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ee15312b4b2802698e57bb971&id=bd55aa9632&e=dd09add411>
> .
>
> After the panel ends at around 1 pm, and throughout the weekend, till
> midnight Sunday, the film will be available for free streaming
> <https://itsoc.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ee15312b4b2802698e57bb971&id=4b63f940ca&e=dd09add411>,
> *Password: Shannon-ISIT *
> Watch the Film Starting June 26
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>
> Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to watch a unique tribute to Claude
> Shannon, and please invite your friends to watch as well.
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> Watch the trailer for The Bit Player on Vimeo
> IT Society Sponsorship
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> is a sponsor of this film.
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