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Schindler, G. E., Jr., ed. A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: Switching Technology (1925–1975). Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1982.

Schrödinger, Erwin. What Is Life? Reprint ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Seife, Charles. Decoding the Universe. New York: Viking, 2006.

Shaffner, Taliaferro P. The Telegraph Manual: A Complete History and Description of the Semaphoric, Electric and Magnetic Telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Ancient and Modern. New York: Pudney & Russell, 1859.

Shannon, Claude Elwood. Collected Papers. Edited by N. J. A. Sloane and Aaron D. Wyner. New York: IEEE Press, 1993.

———. Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by N. J. A. Sloane and Aaron D. Wyner. Murray Hill, N.J.: Mathematical Sciences Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1993.

Shannon, Claude Elwood, and Warren Weaver. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949.

Shenk, David. Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Shieber, Stuart M., ed. The Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.

Shiryaev, A. N. “Kolmogorov: Life and Creative Activities.” Annals of Probability 17, no. 3 (1989): 866–944.

Siegfried, Tom. The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory—The New Physics of Information. New York: Wiley and Sons, 2000.

Silverman, Kenneth. Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Simpson, John. “Preface to the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.” Oxford University Press, http://oed.com/about/oed3-preface/#general (accessed 13 June 2010).

Simpson, John, ed. The First English Dictionary, 1604: Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabeticall. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2007.

Singh, Jagjit. Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language and Cybernetics. New York: Dover, 1966.

Singh, Simon. The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Codebreaking. London: Fourth Estate, 1999.

Slater, Robert. Portraits in Silicon. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987.

Slepian, David. “Information Theory in the Fifties.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 19, no. 2 (1973): 145–48.

Sloman, Aaron. The Computer Revolution in Philosophy. Hassocks, Sussex: Harrester Press, 1978.

Smith, D. E. A Source Book in Mathematics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1929.

Smith, Francis O. J. The Secret Corresponding Vocabulary; Adapted for Use to Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph: And Also in Conducting Written Correspondence, Transmitted by the Mails, or Otherwise. Portland, Maine: Thurston, Ilsley, 1845.

Smith, G. C. The Boole–De Morgan Correspondence 1842–1864. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.

Smith, John Maynard. “The Concept of Information in Biology.” Philosophy of Science 67 (2000): 177–94.

Smolin, J. A. “The Early Days of Experimental Quantum Cryptography.” IBM Journal of Research and Development 48 (2004): 47–52.

Solana-Ortega, Alberto. “The Information Revolution Is Yet to Come: An Homage to Claude E. Shannon.” In Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, AIP Conference Proceedings 617, edited by Robert L. Fry. Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, 2002.

Solomonoff, Ray J. “A Formal Theory of Inductive Inference.” Information and Control 7, no. 1 (1964): 1–22.

———. “The Discovery of Algorithmic Probability.” Journal of Computer and System Sciences 55, no. 1 (1997): 73–88.

Solymar, Laszlo. Getting the Message: A History of Communications. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Spellerberg, Ian F., and Peter J. Fedor. “A Tribute to Claude Shannon (1916–2001) and a Plea for More Rigorous Use of Species Richness, Species Diversity and the ‘Shannon-Wiener’ Index,” Global Ecology and Biogeography 12 (2003): 177–79.

Sperry, Roger. “Mind, Brain, and Humanist Values.” In New Views of the Nature of Man, edited by John R. Platt, 71–92. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Sprat, Thomas. The History of the Royal Society of London,