Alan Kay on How Shannon's Noisy-Channel Work Underpins Modern Computing [Video]
behoove · hn · 2026-09-26
An Alan Kay lecture video circulating on Hacker News revisits Claude Shannon's foundational work on dealing with noisy channels, framed in Kay's characteristic historical perspective on how these ideas shaped computing and communication.
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