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Army ROTC curriculum at the College has undergone major revision recently, but in reality there has been little change at Shannon Hall. Once a week over 150 figures in olive drab uniforms still stream over to a muddy field by the Divinity School, march around and attend classes--a few hours later to be reabsorbed into an Ivy League environment...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: Part-Time Soldier Forgets Ivy Status | 2/23/1956 | See Source »

...HAROLD SHANNON San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Redundancy," as devised by Mathematician Claude E. Shannon and others, is an evaluation of the effectiveness of the varied forms of communication-e.g., telegraphy, speech, art, music, semaphore, television-in terms of the idea that a certain percentage of symbols in a message does not convey information but merely combats "noise." Noise is sometimes defined as anything from the static of a radio message to a wall of fear, prejudice or misinformation existing in the mind of the listener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Say It Again | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...does clarity, up to a point. Yale Electrical Engineering Professor W. J. Cunningham figures that most written and spoken English exhibits some 50% redundancy. If half of the letters were struck out, the message could still get through despite interfering noise. Two extremes of redundancy in English, according to Shannon, are Basic English, whose vocabulary of 850 words makes its redundancy far too high, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which has such low redundancy (owing to the author's coinage of new words) that it is unintelligible to the average reader. In television, says Cunningham, redundancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Say It Again | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...like a monstrous run all over the ten-denier silk-stocking district. Two telephone-company employees, Carl Ruh, a tester, and Walter Asmann, a "frame-man" who made cross connections for the company, were found on the premises. They were fired by the company and arrested, along with Warren Shannon, an electrician, in whose name the apartment was rented; all were charged with conspiracy and illegal wiretapping. The three pleaded guilty; Shannon and Ruh turned state's evidence and pointed to Broady, a lawyer turned private eye, as the top tapper who had hired them. As the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Line Was Very Busy | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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