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  ETOPiA Science on Screen: The Bit Player (2018) - A film by Mark A. Levinson

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  2:00 PM Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute

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  ETOPiA Science on Screen: The Bit Player (2018) - A film by Mark A. Levinson

  Northwestern University's ETOPiA (Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts) presents Science on Screen:

  The Bit Player (2018)
  A film by Mark A. Levinson
  Director of the award-winning film Particle Fever
  Each film screening will be followed by a faculty-led discussion.

  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.

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  TIME Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  LOCATION Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute    map it

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  CONTACT Matthew Grayson    etopianorthwestern@gmail.com EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science