The Information - James Gleick [251]
altruism, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
American Telephone & Telegraph, prl.1, 6.1, 7.1
amino acids, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6
Ampère, André-Marie, 5.1, 5.2
amplitude modulation, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
analog technology, 8.1, 8.2
Analytical Engine, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Analytical Society, 4.1, 4.2
Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton)
Anglo-American Cyclopedia, The (Borges)
Anglo-Saxon speech, 3.1, 3.2
anthropocentrism
antiaircraft guns and artillery, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1, 12.2
aperiodic crystals, 9.1, 10.1
Arabic numerals
Arcadia (Stoppard), 9.1, 9.2, 14.1
Aristotle and Aristotelian philosophy, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 14.1, 14.2
Armani, Giorgio, 14.1, 14.2
Arte of Rhetorique, The (Wilson)
artificial intelligence, prl.1, 12.1; see also machines, attribution of thinking to
Ashby, W. Ross
astronomy
atomic science, prl.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
Atwood, Margaret, 11.1, epl.1, epl.2
Auden, W. H.
automata, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
chess automata
aviation radio
Babbage, Charles, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2
Analytical Engine of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
at Cambridge, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
cryptographic work of, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Difference Engine of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 6.1
early life, 4.1, 4.2
information transmission studies of, 4.1, 4.2
language work of, 4.1, 4.2
Lovelace and, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9
mechanical notation system of, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1
on persistence of thought and information, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
personal qualities, 4.1, 4.2
railroad studies of, 4.1, 4.2
range of interests and expertise, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
vision of future of, 4.1, 4.2
Babbage, Georgiana Whitmore
Babel, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, epl.1, epl.2
Babylonian culture, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Bacon, Francis
bacteria, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Baker, Nicholson, 14.1, 14.2, epl.1, epl.2
Balbus, Johannes
Balzac, Honoré de
bandwidth, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1
ban unit of probability
Banville, John
Barber paradox
Baruch, Bernard M.
Barwise, Jon
Bates, John
Bateson, Gregory, 8.1, 8.2
Baudot code
Bavelas, Alex
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 11.1, 15.1, epl.1
Bell, Alexander Graham, 6.1, 6.2
Bell, Gordon
Bell Laboratories, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2
Bell System Technical Journal, prl.1, 6.1, 7.1
Bell Telephone Company
Bennett, Charles H., 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10, 13.11, 15.1
Benton, Billy
Benzer, Seymour, 10.1, 10.2
Bernoulli numbers, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Berry, G. G., 6.1, 6.2
Berry’s paradox, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Bible
Bierce, Ambrose
Bigelow, Julian
binary operations
coding systems for, 5.1, 5.2
representation of relay circuits as
in telegraphy, 7.1, 8.1
in use of alphabetical ordering systems
see also bit(s)
biology
entropy and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
evolutionary, 10.1, 11.1
fundamental particles of
of human ecosystem, 10.1, 10.2
information processing in, prl.1, prl.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
molecular, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
purposeful action in processes of, 9.1, 9.2
see also genetics; neurophysiology
biosphere, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
bit(s)
as basis of physics, prl.1, prl.2, 13.1, 13.2
biological measurements
cost of information processing
data compression strategies, 12.1, 12.2
decision-making requirements
definition of, prl.1, 7.1
first usage
growth of measuring units, 14.1, 14.2
meaning and
measurement of cosmos in, prl.1, 14.1
purpose
transmission by fire beacon, 1.1, 1.2
black holes, prl.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Blair, Ann
Blair, Earl
Bletchley Park, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Blount, Thomas, 3.1, 3.2
Bodleian