UNIX was written by some guys in the same organization, I wonder one of them thought "Oh sure Shannon gets to work on what he wants, why can't we work on the the future of a global inter-net? Why do we have to hide it as a text processing system?"
My management here apparently is a crowd sourced mob trying to silence me by clicktivism. Shannon and KNR had it easy, IMO.
One of his great contributions, I would argue, information theory being another, and secure telecommunications.
Early work on switching networks (MS Thesis):
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173
Seminal work on information theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Commu...
> they let him work on whatever he wanted
UNIX was written by some guys in the same organization, I wonder one of them thought "Oh sure Shannon gets to work on what he wants, why can't we work on the the future of a global inter-net? Why do we have to hide it as a text processing system?"
My management here apparently is a crowd sourced mob trying to silence me by clicktivism. Shannon and KNR had it easy, IMO.