You are all welcome to attend a screening of the highly anticipated movie The Bit Player - Claude Shannon: Prophet of Information, a film by Awarding-Winning Film Director Mark A Levinson. The screening will take place on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 2:00 pm in room 26-100. Please click here for more information about the documentary.

Registration:

If you will be attending the screening, please fill out the registration form.

The event is FREE and all are welcome to attend.

Movie description:

In a blockbuster paper in 1948, Claude Shannon introduced the notion of a "bit" and laid the foundation for the information age. His ideas ripple through nearly every aspect of modern life, influencing such diverse fields as communication, computing, cryptography, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cosmology, linguistics, and genetics. But when interviewed in the 1980s, Shannon was more interested in showing off the gadgets he’d constructed — juggling robots, a Rubik’s Cube solving machine, a wearable computer to win at roulette, a unicycle without pedals, a flame-throwing trumpet — than rehashing the past. Mixing contemporary interviews, archival film, animation, and dialogue drawn from interviews conducted with Shannon himself, The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.

You can view the trailer here.