Comment by earljwagner

11 years ago

Thorp is pretty interesting. With Claude Shannon he invented the first wearable computer:

"It's with Shannon that Thorp would revisit a question he had considered years earlier: whether he could apply mathematics to beat the game of roulette as he had done with blackjack. Thorp and Shannon would develop a friendship and, in the process of answering that question, build what is widely regarded to be the first wearable computer."