The Information - James Gleick [262]
early studies in symbolic logic, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
information storage studies of, 7.1, 7.2
Kolmogorov and, 12.1, 12.2
master’s thesis of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
maze-navigating machine of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
on meaning in messages, prl.1, 7.1
measurement of information by, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1
at MIT, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 8.1, 12.1
at Princeton, 6.1, 6.2
quantum information science and, 13.1, 13.2
statistical analysis of language by, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
study of redundancy in language by, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2
theory of information, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
on thinking machines, 8.1, 8.2
Turing machine analysis by
Wiener and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.1, 9.2
work with Differential Analyzer, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Shannon, Mabel Catherine Wolf
Shannon, Norma Levor, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Shannon entropy, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2
Shannon-Fano coding
Shannon limit
Shaw, George Bernard
Shockley, William
Shor, Peter, 13.1, 13.2
signal distortion; see noise
signals and signaling
Babbage’s occulting light for
brain function as
fire beacons
historical evolution of, 1.1, 1.2
lighthouses
nature of telephone communication, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
in neurological disorders
power of writing, 2.1, 2.2
in telegraphy before electricity, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
in telegraphy before Morse code, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
for telephone switching, 6.1, 6.2
see also Morse code
signal-to-noise ratio, 8.1, 8.2, 15.1
Simpson, John, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
simultaneity
Six Degrees of Separation (Guare), epl.1, epl.2
Skinner, B. F.
Smalley, Sondra
small-world networks, epl.1, epl.2
Smee, Alfred
Smith, Francis O. J., 5.1, 5.2
Smolin, John
social sciences, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Solomonoff, Ray, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Sömmerring, Samuel Thomas von
Sophocles, 14.1, 15.1
Southwell, Robert
Soviet Union, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
space exploration
Speculum Maius (Vincent of Beauvais)
spelling, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Spender, Stephen
Sperry, Roger
“spooky action at a distance,” (Einstein), 13.1, 13.2
Sprat, Thomas, 2.1, 3.1
statistical analysis, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
steam power, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 9.2
Stent, Gunther, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Stevin, Simon
stochastic processes, 7.1, 7.2
Stoppard, Tom, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1
storage of information
Shannon’s early calculations on, 7.1, 7.2
sources of confusion in, 14.1, 14.2
trends in, 14.1, 14.2
Streufert, Siegfried, 15.1, 15.2
Strogatz, Steven, epl.1, epl.2
Stuart, Gilbert
Suetonius
superposition of states, 13.1, 13.2
Surowiecki, James
surprise, as feature of information, 7.1, 9.1
Susskind, Leonard
syllabary
symbolic logic
application to genetics, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
to avoid paradox
conceptual basis, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
conceptual origins of computers in, 6.1, 6.2
to describe communication systems
to describe relay circuits, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2
goals of Principia Mathematica, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
incompleteness of formal systems of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1
as mechanical operation, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
promise of, 6.1, 6.2
search for perfect system of
symbols and symbol sets
in Babbage’s mechanical notation, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1
for cryptography
fo universal language
in Lovelace’s game solution formula
for measurement of information, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
for perfect language
redundancy of communication determined by, 1.1, 1.2
in structure of language
for Turing machine
see also alphabet(s); code; symbolic logic; writing
Szilárd, Leó, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 13.1
“Table Alphabeticall, A” (Cawdrey), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, 3.19
Table of Constants of the Class Mammalia (Babbage)
Table of the Relative Frequency of the Causes of Breaking of Plate Glass Windows