2. What did Chaitin determine about most numbers?
(a) That they can be compressed to manageable entities.
(b) That they have complex alogarithms.
(c) That they are not computable.
(d) That they are computable.

3. What was Claude Shannon fascinated with?
(a) Communications.
(b) Computing.
(c) Cryptograms.
(d) Electronics.

4. What can the amount of information in a message be expressed in?
(a) By the algorithm that produces it.
(b) By its integral number.
(c) By the bits it contains.
(d) By the computation that produces it.

5. Why do scientists view quantum particles in terms of probability?
(a) The exact properties of quantum particles change.
(b) The exact properties of quantum particles are not stable.
(c) The exact properties of quantum particles are dynamic.
(d) The exact properties of quantum particles are unknown.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were telegraph messages priced?

3. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?

4. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?

5. According to Psychologist George Miller, what type of process takes place in the mind relative to the information it receives?

(see the answer key)

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