The Bit Player

The Bit Player is a 2019 documentary film created to celebrate the 2016 centenary of the birth of Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory".

[1][2] The film premiered at the World Science Festival in New York City on May 29,[3] and was screened for a large audience at the IEEE Information Theory Society's meeting in Vail, Colorado, on June 19.

[2] A review in Physics Today calls it "not quite a documentary" and "a delightful new film".

[3] The film was named "best in show" in Realscreen's MIPTV Picks 2019.

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The panel discussion after the August 2, 2019, screening of The Bit Player at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California . At the right, Andrea Goldsmith , a professor at Stanford and representative of the IEEE Information Theory Society . Center, Mark Levinson , director and producer of the documentary. Left, Hansen Hsu of the Computer History Museum, moderator.