A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf]

14 points by kristianp 3 days ago | 2 comments

vivid242 an hour ago |
It’s so amazing that the same man invented all these amazing things (including the machine that switches itself off) AND the ‚bit‘ (in his Master’s thesis).
ui301 an hour ago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...