Dr. Kathleen Bem photographed in our new Boston-Metro Studio.
She serves as the Chief Business Development Officer at the Fairbanks Institute.
Dr. Bem holds a Ph.D and M.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Purdue University with undergraduate degrees in biology, chemistry and mathematics.
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 his 1937 MIT master’s thesis. That thesis 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:
Another photo from our archives of the cryptographer, Ron Rivest. We photographed him in his office at MIT for Scientific American Magazine. Dr. Rivest is the “R” and one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm and the security and crypto firm RSA Security.
Another “superstar” scientist portrait. It is also is my most infringed image:
It’s a photo of Thomas Samuel Kuhn, considered “one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century,” who in 1962 wrote, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which he coined the term “paradigm shift.” He’s photographed here at MIT for Scientific American magazine.