He was also a jazz musician (the clarinet), a somewhat accomplished juggler, a devoted unicycle enthusiast, and left behind a basement full of contraptions he was building in various states of finish - like the electronic mouse navigating a maze, a chess playing machine, and all other kinds of curiosities. His papers are coherent and still relevant to this day and follow the birth of each of these fields like information theory and artificial intelligence. Who knows what else he might have been working on at Bell labs that we may not be privy too.