Colleagues: One of the many, many cool things to be featured in the brand new MIT Museum will be a working replica of Claude Shannon’s Theseus maze. This replica was a collaborative project with the Heinz NixdorfMuseumsForum in Paderborn, Germany. Dr. Jochen Viehoff, director of the museum, has flown in to help us get the replica working just in time for the opening. He will be giving demonstrations of the device on Sunday when we make our grand public opening but I wanted to call your attention to a special lecture and talk for the Cambridge Science Festival on Monday, October 3 from noon-1 pm.
During this session, Dr. Viehoff will be giving the background to the complex effort he and his colleagues at HNF undertook over the past decade. It will also feature a demonstration of the device. The event is free but does require tickets<https://tickets.mitmuseum.org/events/e5b5b67f-2d00-8572-61e5-e7e1ac5d30cb>. For more information about the talk, see the festival guide<https://cambridgesciencefestival.org/event/the-mouse-that-changed-everything-building-a-working-replica-of-claude-shannons-famous-theseus-maze/>. (Which also has information on the many other spectacular programs scheduled for our special 2022 edition of CSF.) Look forward to seeing you at our first public talk in the new museum! Debbie Douglas Deborah G. Douglas, PhD • Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology, MIT Museum; Research Associate, Program in Science, Technology, and Society • Room E28-320B • 314 Main Street • Gambrill Center • Cambridge, MA 02142 • ddoug...@mit.edu<mailto:ddoug...@mit.edu> • 617-253-1766 telephone • 617-253-8994 facsimile • http://mitmuseum.mit.edu • she/her/hers
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