Artifact Details

Title

Claude Shannon (1916-2001): Personal Memories

Catalog Number

102665761

Type

Document

Description

This is a black and white image of an obituary article for Claude Shannon written by Ben Mittman. In this article he describes his past experiences with Claude and of the Swiss army knives and other gadgets that Claude loved so dearly. The three images in this article are of Swiss army knives, Betty and Claude in a hotel in Linz, Austria, and a group portrait of chess pioneers in Vienna, Austria in 1980.

Date

2001-06

Author

Mittman, Benjamin

Publisher

International Computer Games Association (ICGA)

Dimensions

205.47 MB

Format

Photographic print

Category

Article; Periodical

Subject

Mittman, Benjamin; Shannon, Claude Elwood

Credit

Gift of Benjamin Mittman

Lot Number

X3596.2006