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*** logic gates can be made of DNA, pneumatic devices, CMOS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate#Implementations]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_logic boolean logic]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Elwood_Shannon Claude Shannon] - founder of information theory (in 1948), but... wrote the most important master's thesis of all timethe century? (1940).
*** Claude Shannon. [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173 A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits]. Master's Thesis, MIT. 1940.
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay relays] and Scherz p 306-9.