The Bit Player

History Documentary hosted by Andrew Shannon, published by IEEE in 2018 - English narration



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The Bit Player
The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius; Claude Shannon 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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* Video Codec: x264 High@L4.1
* Video: Bitrate: (~4521 kb/s)
* Video Aspect Ratio: 1920 x 1080
* Video Resolution: 1.778 (16:9
* Audio Codec: MPEG-4 AAC LC
* Audio: English
* Audio Bitrate: 157 kb/s VBR 48000Hz
* Audio Channels: stereo (2/0)
* Run-Time: 86 Mins
* Framerate: 25.000 Fps
* Number of Parts: 1
* Container Mp4
* Part Size: 2.80 GB
* Source: HDTV
* Encoded by: Harry65

Release Notes

Merged English Subtitles

Links
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