Claude Shannon Google Doodle. 100th Birthday of "The Father of Information Theory"

Today the Search Engine Google is showing an animated Doodle for celebrating Claude Shannon’s 100th birthday.

Claude Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". 

Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948. He is perhaps equally well known for founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical, numerical relationship.

As a cryptographer for the US government in World War II, Shannon developed the first unbreakable cipher. He juggled between tinkering with electronic switches to developing an electromechanic mouse called 'Theseus' which could teach itself to navigate a maze, much like the modern-day artificial intelligence.

Claude Elwood Shannon gave many more inventions to the science and technology like :

Shannon’s mouse

Shannon’s computer chess program

Shannon’s maxim

The Information Theory

Google Doodle for Hertha Marks Ayrton’s 162nd birthday

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor. She was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.

Hertha Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks at 6 Queen Street, Portsea, Hampshire, England on 28 April 1854. She was the third child of a Polish Jewish watchmaker named Levi Marks an immigrant from Tsarist Poland; and Alice Theresa Moss a seamstress, the daughter of Joseph Moss, a glass merchant of Portsea.

She was first woman to do so. Her words were then published, marking a permanent contribution to the canon of physical science and a victory over discrimination and exclusion.

Today, 162 years after her birth, we celebrate her legacy as engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, her impact still rippling through the scientific community.

She died of blood poisoning (resulting from an insect bite) on 26 August 1923 at New Cottage, North Lancing, Sussex.

William Shakespeare Google Doodle

Genius. There are many examples throughout human history, but today we celebrate one particularly brilliant one: William Shakespeare— writer, playwright, and one of the most eloquent voices of all time. 

Born: April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Died: April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon".Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, and these are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres.

 He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language.Today the Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for marking 400th death anniversary of William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet.

William Shakespeare officially wrote 38 plays in his 52 years, some of which you can spot in today's Doodle. Can you identify all of them? 

Pandit Ravi Shankar’s 96th birthday Google Doodle

Today we celebrate Pandit Ravi Shankar, who was born 96 years ago today. Shankar evangelized the use of Indian instruments in Western music, introducing the atmospheric hum of the sitar to audiences worldwide.

He performed frequently with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, and composed a concerto with sitar for the London Symphony Orchestra. Shankar also taught George Harrison of the Beatles how to play the sitar, and widely influenced popular music in the 1960s and 70s.

In 1956 he began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on the latter helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in pop music throughout the 1960s.

First Modern Olympic Games at Athens in 1896. Google shows Doodle for 120th Anniversary.

Today is the 120th anniversary of the first modern Olympic games, which started in Athens, Greece in 1896. Officially called the Games of the I Olympiad, the events took place inside the Panathenaic Stadium.
The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for marking this event.

It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era. Because Ancient Greece was the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Athens was considered to be an appropriate choice to stage the inaugural modern Games.

Despite many obstacles and setbacks, the 1896 Olympics were regarded as a great success. The Games had the largest international participation of any sporting event to that date. 

The 1896 games included 9 different sports and 43 events. Most noteworthy was the marathon — it had the greatest number of international athletes ever.

 Equally noteworthy was its winner, Spyridon "Spyro" Louis, the only Greek champion in the athletics division, and a national hero for the host country. His monumental victory on that historic day continues to inspire Greek pride.