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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.

2. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?

3. What was the Morse code comprised of?

4. What was Claude Shannon fascinated with?

5. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who developed the Principia Mathematica and what did it provide?

2. What did Claude Shannon create from examining the statistical makeup of the English language?

3. What innovative device did Charles Babbage design and build?

4. By reducing information to its elemental form, Claude Shannon opened up a new field of scientific inquiry that proved to have applications not only in communications, but in what other fields?

5. What was the purpose behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary?

6. How was the "telephone number" born?

7. While Shannon worked on secret cryptography projects for the US government during World War II, what theory about information did he conceive?

8. What impact did the electric telegraph have on the world?

9. By the 1930s the telephone had replace the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication. What advantages did the telephone have over the telegraph?

10. What were examples of the use of mathematics in the Babylonian culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the year 1948 considered a huge turning point in information theory and technology? What advances were made by researchers at Bell Laboratories during this time frame?

Essay Topic 2

Explain why electricity opened up the field of communication? How did the electric telegraph function and why was it superior to the earlier French version? How did the telegraph impact global communications?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of "telegraph" was invented by two French brothers and how did it function. What was the downside of this invention? Why was human error a factor in this process?

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