In 1990, former MIT professor Dr. Michael Hammer published an article in the Harvard Business Review that became the basis for a revolution in business strategy in the ’90s. It later became the basis for the 1993 book with James Champy Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. I photographed them both for several magazines several times. Here are two sample shots. Others are also available for licensing.
This is part two of an earlier blog post about Claude Shannon.
In 1948 Claude Elwood Shannon created “Information Theory” which eventually gave us the fax machine, CD, digital wireless telephone and MP3. He codeveloped the integrated circuit, artificial intelligence, and even genomics.
Wikipedia credits him with founding both the digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937 in his MIT master’s thesis. It was also “hailed as the most important thesis of all time,” by ATT.
He also invented the first juggling machine.
Here he is in the backyard of his home near Boston:
