Institute for Advanced Study

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data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-10%20at%209.59.20%20AM.png?itok=0r68hzRA" width="355" height="260" alt="Claude Shannon"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-10%20at%209.59.20%20AM.png?itok=0r68hzRA" width="355" height="260" alt="Claude Shannon"/></noscript> </a> </div> <h1> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/news/shannon-newyorker"> Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100 </a> </h1> <div class="byline-dateline"> <span class="byline"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-05-10T10:00:00-04:00">May 10, 2016</span></span> </div> <div class="teaser cb-editor"> <div> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/siobhan-roberts">Siobhan Roberts</a>, frequent Director’s Visitor, discusses how one hundred years after his birth, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/claude-e-shannon">Claude Shannon</a>’s (Member 1940–41) fingerprints are on every digital device we own. </div> </div> </div>  </article>  <article id="node-59121" class="node node-idea node-odd idea idea-grid-1-col col-quarter grid-single-col basic-teaser h-effect m-grid-item"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas" class="icon-wrap"><span class="icon-label">Ideas</span></a> <div class="affiliation"> <p><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas?aff=All">Program in Interdisciplinary Studies</a></p> </div> <span property="dc:title" content="Earth’s Last Frontier" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="feature-thumbnail"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/giovannelli-last-frontier"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/images/loaders/placeholder.gif" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/images/featured-thumbnails/ideas/Giovanelli1.png?itok=G8Ir_Yev" width="355" height="255"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/images/featured-thumbnails/ideas/Giovanelli1.png?itok=G8Ir_Yev" width="355" height="255"/></noscript> </a> </div> <h1> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/giovannelli-last-frontier"> Earth’s Last Frontier </a> </h1> <div class="byline-dateline"> <span class="byline"> By <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/donato-giovannelli">Donato Giovannelli</a> </span> </div> <div class="teaser cb-editor"> <div> Research on deep-sea hydrothermal vent microorganisms ignited a new wave of theories on the origins of life on Earth, as well as how scientists look for life elsewhere. </div> </div> </div>  </article>  <article id="node-59171" class="node node-idea node-even idea idea-grid-2-col col-half grid-double-col basic-teaser h-effect m-grid-item"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas" class="icon-wrap"><span class="icon-label">Ideas</span></a> <div class="affiliation"> <p><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas?aff=1">Historical Studies</a></p> </div> <span property="dc:title" content="The Shiite Interpretation of the Status of Women" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="feature-thumbnail small"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/ansari-shiite-women"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/images/loaders/placeholder.gif" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/images/featured-thumbnails/ideas/Ansari_Fatima-Women.jpg?itok=Lsv9dZw_" width="355" height="582"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/images/featured-thumbnails/ideas/Ansari_Fatima-Women.jpg?itok=Lsv9dZw_" width="355" height="582"/></noscript> </a> </div> <div class="title-wrapper"> <h1><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/ansari-shiite-women"> The Shiite Interpretation of the Status of Women </a></h1> <div class="byline-dateline"> <span class="byline"> By <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/hassan-farhang-ansari">Hassan Farhang Ansari</a> </span> </div> </div> <div class="teaser cb-editor"> <div> Women are born just like men, according to divine nature. If Eve—as the first woman—was misled by Satan, her fault is equal to that of Adam—as the first man—and not superior. Thus, she is not the symbol of fault or “original sin.” Overall, the original religious texts describe women in Islam as innocent and pure beings who cannot be more tempted by Satan than men. </div> </div> </div>  </article>  <h3 class="field-label"> Show Calendar </h3> </div> </div> </div>  </article>  </div> </div> </div><div class="block-views-featured_scholars-block block block-views block-featured-scolars block-even last"> <div class="block-inner"> <div class="block-content"> <div class="view view-featured-scholars view-id-featured_scholars view-display-id-block l-container l-grid feat-scholars cf view-dom-id-2541a7d27e09f971d60973bcf83f035d"> <div class="view-header"> <p><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars" class="icon-wrap"><span class="icon-label">Faculty and Members<span></span></span></a></p> </div> <div class="view-content"> <article id="node-58726" class="node node-featured-scholar node-odd featured_scholar featured-scholar-full cb-feat-scholar h-effect col-half img-left"> <span property="dc:title" content="Deva Woodly: Reviving Rhetoric" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="scholar-thumb img-circular"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/deva-r-woodly"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/images/loaders/placeholder.gif" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/Woodly_SSS_ReadingGroup_DanielleAllen_02012013_AK_004.jpg?itok=pXQ27oEn" width="310" height="310"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/Woodly_SSS_ReadingGroup_DanielleAllen_02012013_AK_004.jpg?itok=pXQ27oEn" width="310" height="310"/></noscript> </a> </div> <div class="scholar-info">  <p>What distinguished Barack Obama in the popular imagination, and what made his candidacy credible in those early days of 2008, was the way he could turn a phrase.</p> <p><em><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/deva-r-woodly">Member Deva Woodly</a> in <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2013/woodly-rhetoric">“Reviving Rhetoric: An Aristotelian Interpretation of the Campaigns of Political Underdogs”</a></em></p> </div> </article> <article id="node-57566" class="node node-featured-scholar node-even featured_scholar featured-scholar-full cb-feat-scholar h-effect col-half img-left"> <span property="dc:title" content="Didier Fassin: What Is a State? (SSS)" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="scholar-thumb img-circular"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/fassin"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/images/loaders/placeholder.gif" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/Fassin-SSS_Seminar_20160309_DKomoda-0067.jpg?itok=ZnfadQxm" width="310" height="310"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/Fassin-SSS_Seminar_20160309_DKomoda-0067.jpg?itok=ZnfadQxm" width="310" height="310"/></noscript> </a> </div> <div class="scholar-info">  <p>What is a state? We propose our own response as sociologists and anthropologists. But the specificity of our approach resides in its method: ethnography.</p> <p><em><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/fassin">Professor Didier Fassin</a> in <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/fassin-summer-program">“W</a><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/fassin-a-state">hat Is a State?”</a></em></p> </div> </article> <article id="node-57561" class="node node-featured-scholar node-odd featured_scholar featured-scholar-full cb-feat-scholar h-effect col-half img-right"> <span property="dc:title" content="Ed Witten: Geometric Langlands, Khovanov Homology, String Theory (SNS)" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="scholar-info">  <p>It was very hard to write a paper about it. I felt like someone who had discovered the meaning of life and couldn’t explain it to anybody else.</p> <p><em><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/witten">Professor Edward Witten</a> in <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/witten-interview">“Geometric Langlands, Khovanov Homology, String Theory”</a></em></p> </div> <div class="scholar-thumb img-circular"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/witten"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/images/loaders/placeholder.gif" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/Witten-2PiTP_Edward_Witten_20150730_DKomoda-1175.jpg?itok=B8yc5I-X" width="310" height="310"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/Witten-2PiTP_Edward_Witten_20150730_DKomoda-1175.jpg?itok=B8yc5I-X" width="310" height="310"/></noscript> </a> </div> </article> <article id="node-59291" class="node node-featured-scholar node-even featured_scholar featured-scholar-full cb-feat-scholar h-effect col-half img-right"> <span property="dc:title" content="Ana Rita Pires: Hospitality at Hilbert's Hotel (Math)" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="scholar-info">  <p>Does Hilbert’s hotel (a hotel with infinitely many rooms) ever fail to accommodate new guests? Is there an infinity that is too large for Hilbert’s hotel?</p> <p><em><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/ana-pires">Member Ana Rita Pires</a> in <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/pires-hilbert-hotel">“Hospitality at the Hilbert Hotel”</a></em></p> </div> <div class="scholar-thumb img-circular"> <a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/ana-pires"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/images/loaders/placeholder.gif" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/ana-rita-pires_Lunch_Fall_20141111_AK_098.jpg.jpg?itok=fW5r2osi" width="310" height="310"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000756im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/featured-scholars/ana-rita-pires_Lunch_Fall_20141111_AK_098.jpg.jpg?itok=fW5r2osi" width="310" height="310"/></noscript> </a> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section>    </div>  <section class="video-player"> <div class="video-container"> <div class="ico icon-cancel close-btn"></div> <div class="iframe-wrapper"> </div> </div> </section> </div>   <footer id="footer"> <div class="footer-bottom cf"> <div class="l-container"> <div class="block-menu-menu-footer-menu block block-menu menu-footer cf block-odd first last"> <div class="block-inner"> <div class="block-content"> <div class="menu-wrapper lvl-1"><ul class="menu menu-lvl-1"><li class="first leaf odd"><a href="/web/20160513000756/https://www.ias.edu/campus/computing/privacy%C2%ADpolicy">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li class="leaf even"><a 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