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Vannevar Bush was the first prominent scientist to spot Claude Shannon
“Vannevar Bush, who was one of the great sort of scientific networkers and organizers in 20th century America, he had a real eye for talent. He was the first person really well up in the scientific hierarchy to spot Claude Shannon's talent and to sort of invite…”
Shannon originally termed the bit 'binary digit' before a colleague coined 'bit'
“What Shannon does in introducing the bit which he starts off calling the binary digit Before one of his colleagues comes up with BIT as a good abbreviation.”
Shannon's 1948 paper established the mathematical foundations of digital communication
“Shannon's paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, is something like a founding document. It laid out the principles that make the digital transmission of information possible, and Shannon in this paper does things like introduce the concept of the bit, …”