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| BOX 1-5 | Correspondence, 1938-1995 | ||||||||||||
| General correspondence with attached material and postcards between Shannon and colleagues, professional associates, scholars, friends, and the public relating to information theory, mathematics, artificial intelligence, computer technology, and other professional interests. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged in files of general correspondence and postcards and thereunder chronologically. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | General | ||||||||||||
| 1938-1955 See also Container 19, Scientific papers by others, Miscellany | |||||||||||||
| (12 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | 1956-1958 See also Container 19, Scientific papers by others, Miscellany | ||||||||||||
| (10 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | 1959-1979 See also Container 19, Scientific papers by others, Miscellany | ||||||||||||
| (9 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | 1980-1985 | ||||||||||||
| (10 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | 1986-1995, undated | ||||||||||||
| (6 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Postcards regarding distribution of scientific papers, 1948-1951, undated | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 6-11 | Speeches and Writings, 1938-1987 | ||||||||||||
| Scientific papers, articles, theorems, speeches, lecture notes, interviews, poems, songs, bibliographies, book reviews, and a television program script. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by type of material and alphabetically or chronologically thereunder. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 6 | Articles and scientific papers | ||||||||||||
| Alphabetical file, undated | |||||||||||||
| A-L | |||||||||||||
| (9 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 7 | M-T | ||||||||||||
| (10 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 8 | U-Z and untitled | ||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Chronological file | |||||||||||||
| 1938-1946 | |||||||||||||
| (7 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 9 | 1948-1955 | ||||||||||||
| (8 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 10 | 1956-1978 | ||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Bibliographies and table of contents, 1956, undated | |||||||||||||
| Book reviews, 1956, 1962, undated | |||||||||||||
| Poems and songs, circa 1981-circa 1982, undated | |||||||||||||
| Speeches, lectures, and interviews | |||||||||||||
| 1947-1984, undated | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 11 | 1985-1987, undated | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Television program, script, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX 11-20 | Miscellany, 1932-1993 | ||||||||||||
| Subject files, notes, drawings, diagrams, graphs, technical memoranda, patents, scientific papers, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material and chronologically thereunder. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 11 | Antique Store of the 21st Century, Brookline, Mass., 1983 | ||||||||||||
| American Academy of Achievement, Dallas, Tex., 1966-1967 | |||||||||||||
| Artificial intelligence, 1955, 1978, 1984, undated | |||||||||||||
| Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J. | |||||||||||||
| 3-Relay Kit, undated | |||||||||||||
| Diagrams and photographs | |||||||||||||
| International Morse decoder, number display circuit, perpetual calendar, relay circuit analyzer, 1953, undated See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1940, 1949-1953, undated | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1943-1956 | |||||||||||||
| Patents, 1946-1953, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX 12 | Technical memoranda, 1940-1955 | ||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Berkeley, Edmund C. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1950-1954, undated | |||||||||||||
| Probability and statistical kit, 1960, undated | |||||||||||||
| Bibliographies regarding communication theory and machine self- reproduction, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX 13 | Biographical material, circa 1951, 1961-1989, undated | ||||||||||||
| Brain, mind, and nervous system, undated | |||||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||||
| Typescripts | |||||||||||||
| Cember, Richard P, Word for Word, computer game, 1993 See also Digital File, same heading | |||||||||||||
| Codrington Club, Oxford, England, 1980, undated | |||||||||||||
| Computer memory, bits storage capacity, 1949 | |||||||||||||
| Ephemera, 1948, undated | |||||||||||||
| Game playing and puzzle solving machines | |||||||||||||
| Chess | |||||||||||||
| Articles and scientific papers, 1950-1955, 1989, undated | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, undated | |||||||||||||
| Condon, Edward U., Nim playing machine, 1940 | |||||||||||||
| Maze running | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1956, 1978-1979, undated | |||||||||||||
| Theseus, undated | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1953-1955, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX 14 | Rubik cube solving machines | ||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1981-1982, undated | |||||||||||||
| Singmaster, David, 1981-1982 | |||||||||||||
| Gaussian channels, undated | |||||||||||||
| Generalized central limit theorem, undated | |||||||||||||
| Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Whole Sky Search for Life project, 1982-1984, undated | |||||||||||||
| Harvey Prize, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1972, undated | |||||||||||||
| Information and communications quotations, undated | |||||||||||||
| Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J., 1940, 1977 | |||||||||||||
| Institute of Radio Engineers, Professional Group on Information Theory, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| Juggling machines | |||||||||||||
| Articles | |||||||||||||
| By Shannon, undated | |||||||||||||
| By others, 1979-1982, undated | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1980-1984, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX 15 | Notes, undated | ||||||||||||
| (4 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Kolota, Gina, “A Math Image Problem,” 1986 | |||||||||||||
| Lang, Serge, 1988 | |||||||||||||
| Machine handwriting recognition, undated | |||||||||||||
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. | |||||||||||||
| Mechanical hands, 1958-1960, undated | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1950-1965, 1972-1973, 1979, 1985, undated | |||||||||||||
| Musical instruments, pitch meters, and metronomes, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX 16 | Notes | ||||||||||||
| Diagrams, drawings, and tables, 1949-1951, undated | |||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| See also Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany | |||||||||||||
| 1957, undated | |||||||||||||
| (4 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 17 | (7 folders) | ||||||||||||
| BOX 18 | (7 folders) | ||||||||||||
| BOX 19 | Notebooks and forms, undated | ||||||||||||
| Photographs of Shannon, undated | |||||||||||||
| Research proposals, 1957, undated | |||||||||||||
| Scientific papers by others | |||||||||||||
| Automata studies project, 1955, undated | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1932, 1939-1942, 1952-1960, 1981, undated See also Containers 1-3, General | |||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Siforov, Vladimir L., 1966 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 20 | Statistical English, codes, and translating machines, 1948-1949, undated | ||||||||||||
| Statue of Albert Einstein, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, undated | |||||||||||||
| Symposia and meetings | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1950, 1958, 1965, 1972, 1985, undated | |||||||||||||
| “Skeleton Key to the Information Seminar--Notes,” undated | |||||||||||||
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