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• Claude Shannon was as close to a sure thing as existed. That is why the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was prepared to do what was necessary to lure Shannon away from AT&T’s Bell Labs, and why the institute was delighted when Shannon became a visiting professor in 1956. Shannon had done what practically no one else had done since the Renaiss...
• An event is random only when no one cares to predict it
• Information exists only when the sender is saying something that the recipient doesn’t already know and can’t predict.
• the essence of a message is its improbability.