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=Shannon's Types=
Claude Shannon categorized two types of [[Search|search]] <ref>[[Claude Shannon]] ('''1949'''). ''[http://www.pi.infn.it/%7Ecarosi/chess/shannon.txt Programming a Computer for Playing Chess]''. [httphttps://archivewww.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/2-0%20and%202doc-1.Programming_a_computer_for_playing_chess.shannon431614f453dde/2-0%20and%202-1.Programming_a_computer_for_playing_chess.shannon.062303002.pdf download pdf]</ref> :
* [[Type A Strategy|Type A]] - a [[Brute-Force|brute-force search]] looking at every variation to a given [[Depth|depth]]
* [[Type B Strategy|Type B]] - a [[Selectivity|selective search]] looking at "important" branches only
* [[Claude Shannon]] ('''1938'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_of_Electrical_Engineers Transactions of the AIEE], Vol. 57, No 12, Master's thesis 1940, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
* [[Claude Shannon]] ('''1948'''). ''A Mathematical Theory of Communication''. [http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf pdf]
* [[Claude Shannon]] ('''1949'''). ''[http://www.pi.infn.it/%7Ecarosi/chess/shannon.txt Programming a Computer for Playing Chess]''. [httphttps://archivewww.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/2-0%20and%202doc-1.Programming_a_computer_for_playing_chess.shannon431614f453dde/2-0%20and%202-1.Programming_a_computer_for_playing_chess.shannon.062303002.pdf download pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
==1950 ...==
* [[Claude Shannon]] ('''1950'''). ''A Chess-Playing Machine''. [[Scientific American]], Vol. 182 (No. 2, February 1950), pp. 48-51. Reprinted in [http://www.amazon.com/World-Mathematics-Vol-4/dp/0486411524/ref=pd_sim_b_1 The World of Mathematics], edited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Newman James R. Newman], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_&_Schuster Simon & Schuster, NY], Vol. 4, 1956, pp. 2124-2133. Included in Part B
* [[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-1.htm#CLAUDE%20SHANNON CLAUDE SHANNON (1916-2001): THANK YOU]''. [[ICGA Journal#24_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1]]
* [[Ben Mittman]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/contents/content24-2.htm#CLAUDE%20SHANNON OBITUARY CLAUDE SHANNON (1916 – 2001): PERSONAL MEMORIES]''. [[ICGA Journal#24_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2]]
* [http://webmindell.scripts.mit.edu/mindell/wwwhomepage/ David Mindell], [http://jerome-segal.de/ acc-en.htm Jérôme Segal], [http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/ Slava Gerovitch] ('''2003'''). ''[httphttps://www.infoamerica.org/documentos_word/shannon-wiener.htm Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France and the Soviet Union]''. in [httphttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Walker Mark_Walker_(Wissenschaftshistoriker) Mark Walker], (ed.) ('''2003'''). ''[httphttps://bookswww.googlecrcpress.com/booksScience-and-Ideology-A-Comparative-History/aboutWalker/Science_and_Ideology.html?id=0Nz7Gs-C-9MC&redir_esc=y p/book/9780415279994 Science and Ideology]: A Comparative History ]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routledge Routledge] » [[Claude Shannon]], [[Norbert Wiener]], covers the 1951 Paris Cybernetic Congress* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_McCorduck Pamela McCorduck] ('''2004'''). ''[[Artificial Intelligence#MachinesWhoThink|Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence]]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_K_Peters A. K. Peters] (25th anniversary edition)
=Forum Posts=
* [https://youtu.be/z2Whj_nL-x8 Claude Shannon - Father of the Information Age], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Whj_nL-x8|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
* Claude Shannon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling Juggling]demonstrates "Theseus" Machine Learning @ Bell Labs, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHGzRxfeJY_9_AEVQ_p74|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
==100th Birthday==
* [http://www.itsoc.org/news-events/recent-news/claude-e-shannon-100th-birthday-celebration Claude E. Shannon 100th Birthday Celebration — Information Theory Society], [[IEEE]]
* [http://blog.hnf.de/der-erfinder-der-information/ Der Erfinder der Information | HNF Blog], April 29, 2016, [[Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum]] (German)
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