Name: ETOPiA: The Bit Player
Start: 2019-11-01T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 2145 Sheridan Rd

ETOPiA: The Bit Player 

Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts (ETOPiA)

Northwestern University's ETOPiA

<P>Northwestern University's <SPAN>ETOPiA (Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts) presents Science on Screen</SPAN>:</P>
<H2>The Bit Player (2018)<BR>A film by Mark A. Levinson<BR>Director of the award-winning film Particle Fever</H2>
<P>Each film screening will be followed by a faculty-led discussion.</P>
<P>In a blockbuster paper in 1948, Claude Shannon introduced the notion of a "bit" and laid the foundation for the information age. His ideas ripple through nearly every aspect of modern life, influencing such diverse fields as communication, computing, cryptography, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cosmology, linguistics, and genetics. But when interviewed in the 1980s, Shannon was more interested in showing off the gadgets he’d constructed — juggling robots, a Rubik’s Cube solving machine, a wearable computer to win at roulette, a unicycle without pedals, a flame-throwing trumpet — than rehashing the past. Mixing contemporary interviews, archival film, animation and dialogue drawn from interviews conducted with Shannon himself, <EM>The Bit Player</EM> tells the story of an overlooked genius who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.</P>
<H3>Performance Dates</H3>
<P><STRONG>Friday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m.</STRONG><BR><STRONG>Saturday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m.</STRONG><BR><STRONG>Sunday, November 3 at 2 p.m.</STRONG></P>
<H3>Location & Directions</H3>
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<P><STRONG>Location:</STRONG> Technological Institute, Ryan Family Auditorium, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL</P>
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<P><STRONG>Map & Directions: </STRONG><A HREF="https://maps.northwestern.edu/facility/132" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Northwestern University, Technological Institute, Ryan Family Auditorium</A></P>
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<P>Admission is free, but tickets are required to guarantee seating.</P>
<H3>Sponsors</H3>
<P><SPAN>This event is supported by Northwestern University through the Barry and Mary Ann MacLean Fund for Art & Engineering, the James F. and Mary L. Gibbons Art and Technology Fund, the Materials Research Center NSF-MRSEC grant, the International Institute for Nanotechnology, and the <SPAN>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.</SPAN></SPAN></P>

2145 Sheridan Rd

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