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Archival Material

Claude Elwood Shannon Papers. Library of Congress. Washington, DC.

Claude Shannon Alumnus File. Bentley Historical Library. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.

Claude Shannon Alumnus File. Seeley Mudd Library. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ.

Institute of Communications Research Records. University of Illinois Archives. Urbana, IL.

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Interviews

Barzman, Norma. Interviewed by the authors, December 21, 2014.

Ephremides, Anthony. Interviewed by the authors, May 31, 2016.

Fano, Robert. Interviewed by the authors, October 23, 2015.

Fry, Thornton C. Interviewed by Deirdre M. La Porte, Henry O. Pollak, and G. Baley Price, January 3–4, 1981.

Gallager, Robert. Interviewed by the authors, August 8, 2014.

Graham, Ronald. Interviewed by the authors, August, 23, 2014.

Greenberger, Martin. Interviewed by the authors, May 5, 2016.

Jacobs, Irwin. Interviewed by the authors, January 1, 2015.

Kailath, Thomas. Interviewed by the authors, June 2, 2016.

Kleinrock, Leonard. Interviewed by the authors, September 16, 2016.

Lewbel, Arthur. Interviewed by the authors, August 8, 2014.

McMillan, Brockway. Interviewed by the authors, January 4, 2016.

Moulton-Barrett, Maria. Interviewed by the authors, January 2, 2015, and January 21, 2016.

Pollak, Henry. Interviewed by the authors, August 7, 2014.

Roberts, Larry. Interviewed by the authors, September 26, 2016.

Shannon, Betty. Interviewed by the authors, November 12, 2015.

Shannon, Claude. Interviewed by Friedrich-Wilhelm Hagemeyer, February 28, 1977.

Shannon, Claude, and Betty Shannon. Interviewed by Donald J. Albers, 1990.

Shannon, Peggy. Interviewed by the authors, December 9, 2015.

Thorp, Edward. Interviewed by the authors, March 21, 2016.

Verdú, Sergio. Interviewed by the authors, September 6, 2015.