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What Time Is It, Detroit?
Trains crashing. People dying. Businesses struggling. The perils of keeping incorrect time in Detroit were significant, and the city desperately needed a solution. Enter the Detroit Observatory. Learn more about timekeeping and the stars through a new digital exhibit.
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The Elegant Philosophy of Ones and Zeros
The University of Michigan College of Engineering in the 1930s was the perfect environment to nurture Claude Shannon's curious mind. Aspects of Shannon’s U-M experience can be found in the archives, before he became the "father of information theory."
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