Notes

Selected Works of Claude E. Shannon

C. E. Shannon, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," The Bell System Technical Journal 27 (1948 Jul, Oct), 379-423, 623-656. Also available online at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf (Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Division, Bell Labs, accessed 2003 Sep 21).

J. McCarthy, M. L. Minsky, N. Rochester, and C. E. Shannon, "A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence," (1955 Aug 31). Also available online at http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html (Formal Reasoning Group, Stanford University, accessed 2004 Oct 5). This generally is regarded as containing the first appearance of the term "artificial intelligence."

C. E. Shannon, "Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," (master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1940).

1. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "Claude Elwood Shannon," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Shannon.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13)