Claude Shannon's Ingenious Machines
date:Sunday, July 6, 2008 time:10:00 AM to 5:00 PM venue:MIT Museum address:265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 View map from:MIT Museum
Clever inventions created by the late MIT Professor Claude Shannon, best known as "the father of digital communications and information theory." The display includes The Little Juggling Clowns and a mechanical W.C Fields built by Shannon.
Category: arts/music/film: exhibits
lectures/conferences: science/engineering
Location: N52-200 MIT Museum, Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery
Sponsored by: MIT Museum
Admission:
see http://web.mit.edu/museum/visiting/hours.html
Open to the public
For more information:
Contact Beth Nakamura
617-258-9109
museum@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/museum/about/news/fall07.html#Hybrid
category:Arts and Entertainment
