5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American mathematician and electrical engineer at Bell Labs who founded information theory with his 1948 paper 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' — defining the bit, channel capacity, and the mathematical limits of communication.
William Shockley's textbook on semiconductor physics — the foundational text for understanding the physics underlying transistors and modern electronics.
American electrical engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm, who championed CDMA technology against GSM's industry consensus and built Qualcomm into the dominant semiconductor and patent licensing company for mobile communications.
American electrical engineer who invented the integrated circuit at Texas Instruments in 1958 — independently of Robert Noyce at Fairchild — and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for the invention.
Japanese electrical engineer and co-founder of Sony who defined the company's engineering culture — the belief that any technical problem could be solved if you worked hard enough — creating products like the transistor radio and Walkman from the ruins of post-war Japan.