It has over-invested in ideas such as the FlexPod reference architecture, which ultimately is not an integrated solution (such as those offered by Dell, EMC, HP, IBM and Oracle).

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As for the story that you reference, obviously there are a lot of ideas that get bandied about, both within the administration and outside.

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Some years later, Claude Shannon (also of Bell Labs) would consolidate many of the prevailing ideas on the subject in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" which would reference the work of Nyquist significantly.

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