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Tom Rutledge

Tom Rutledge is a Boston-based investor, consultant, and writer. He tweets at UnkaTRazz.

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Of the pioneers who drove the information technology revolution, Claude Shannon may have been the most brilliant. A new book resurrects his legacy.
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