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Description. This mechanical mouse (1.25" x 1.25" L: 3.5" with tail) finds its way to the goal and remembers the path taken. Its "brain" is relay switches underneath the maze. Howard Gardner said Claude Shannon's MIT master's thesis was "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century."
Replica of Theseus. "Theseus" is what the mathematician and founder of information theory Claude Shannon named his mouse in 1950. This mouse was able to find its way through a labyrinth and was thus the very first self-learning machine. Shannon built this device using relays as they were then used in telephone exchanges, and it is still an ...
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Shannon's electromechanical mouse, Theseus, was one of the earliest attempts to "teach" a machine to "learn" and one of the first experiments in artificial intelligence. Photo credit Bell Labs. Turn Up the Volume, Turn Down the Noise. In the 1800s, long before we buried them underground, telephone wires formed thick curtains above sidewalks and ...
Mar 27, 2015 · Claude Shannon, a mathematical engineer who is often cited as the "founding father" of electronic communications, demonstrates how a mechanical mouse named Theseus "memorizes" the twists and...
Science: Mouse with a Memory. In the Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N. J. lives a mechanical mouse named Theseus, the creature of Dr. Claude Shannon, Bell computer authority....
Oct 24, 2017 · Digital Joy. The first biography of Claude Shannon—tinkerer, juggler, and founder of information theory. By. Lydia Krasilnikova ’14, MEng ’16. October 24, 2017. Claude Shannon somewhat...
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, engineer and cryptologist and is regarded as the father of information theory. From the 1930s onwards, he worked at MIT and later at Bell Labs, where he wrote A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948). In 1952, he invented Theseus, a maze-solving mechanical mouse that can learn to find ...
