In the Media

The Boston Globe’s Mark Feeney spotlights the “Bounce juggler (W.C. Fields),” a machine modeled after the comedian W.C. Fields, on display at the MIT Museum, that juggles three metal balls and was created by the late Prof. Claude Shannon SM ’40, PhD ’40. “It’s one thing to be known as ‘the father of information theory,’ as Shannon is. His work in mathematics, electrical engineering, cryptography, and computer science was that important,” writes Feeney. “But Shannon was also a chess player, unicyclist, juggler, and inventor. Shannon combined his talent for engineering and imagination with his love of humor and juggling in the ‘Bounce juggler.’”