Presentation

Claude Shannon's master of science thesis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering) describing the use of switching circuits to encode information.

If Shannon is sometimes referred to as the father of Tech, it is probably not in recognition for his Information Theory, but instead for a more fundamental contribution to computing as he came up with the idea that switches in electrical circuits could be used to encode information (with 0 or 1 depending on the switches positions). He is effectively the inventor of the bit and the master’s degree thesis in which he described this use-case in 1937 was later dubbed “the most important master’s thesis of the twentieth century”.