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Authors: James Gleick

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conceptual evolution of,
9.1
,
9.2

first law of

of life

molecular fluctuations in,
9.1
,
9.2

probability in,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

second law of,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6

Thesaurus
(Roget)

thinking

cryptographic skills

as digital operation,
8.1
,
8.2

discovery of

human–computer comparison,
8.1
,
8.2

language and,
2.1
,
2.2

in literate cultures,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6
,
2.7
,
2.8

logic and,
2.1
,
2.2
,
5.1
,
5.2

machine and computer operations as,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7
,
8.8
,
8.9
,
8.10

“recoding” of information in,
8.1
,
8.2

telegraph effects on,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

see also
logic

Thomas, Thomas

Thomson, James

Thomson, William, Lord Kelvin,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

“Three Approaches to the Definition of the Concept ‘Amount of Information’” (Kolmogorov)

Three Letter Code for Condensed Telegraphic and Inscrutably Secret Messages and Correspondence
(Scott)

“Three Models for the Description of Language” (Chomsky)

THROBAC

time

effects of information technology in perception of

movement toward entropy in,
9.1
,
9.2

in physics of black holes

speed of early mechanical calculators,
4.1
,
4.2

standardization of clocks,
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

telegraph effects on understanding of,
5.1
,
5.2

written language and

Time Machine, The
(Wells)

Tobias, Andrew

tonality, in communication,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

Torres y Quevedo, Leonardo

Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia,
13.1

trademark names,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3

transistor,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3
,
3.1
,
7.1
,
14.1

translation, language,
3.1
,
3.2

transmission of information

Babbage’s work on,
4.1
,
4.2

bandwidth requirements,
6.1
,
6.2

in biological evolution,
10.1
,
10.2

in cuneiform,
2.1
,
2.2

data compression for

disruptive effects of new technologies for,
prl.1
,
prl.2

entanglement as

evolution of electrical technologies for,
5.1
,
5.2

genetic,
10.1
,
10.2

historical evolution,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4

human history and,
prl.1
,
prl.2

in telephotography,
6.1
,
6.2

interconnectedness of cyberspace for,
3.1
,
3.2

limits of speed and capacity,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

news reports,
5.1
,
5.2

overload effects,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4
,
15.5

by quantum teleportation,
13.1
,
13.2

for replication of culture

sensory involvement as indicator of quality of,
2.1
,
2.2

source of noise in

transmission of electricity as,
5.1
,
5.2

units of measurement

see also
communication; meme(s);
specific mode of transmission

Treatise on Electro-Magnetism
(Roget)

tree rings

triangular numbers,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4

Trudeau, Garry

truth,
2.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5

Turing, Alan,
prl.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
9.1
,
14.1

Turing machine(s)

capabilities

as code generator

proof of incompleteness theorem by,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
12.1

significance of, in computer science,
12.1
,
12.2

states

symbols

tape,
7.1
,
7.2

thermodynamics of,
13.1
,
13.2

two-state model

U
machine,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
12.1

Turing Test,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

Twitter,
11.1
,
epl.1
,
epl.2

Uglow, Jenny

uncertainty

entropy as measure of,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

incompleteness theorem and,
7.1
,
12.1

information and

limits to science,
12.1
,
12.2

in measurement of quantum properties,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

uncomputability,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5

undecidability;
see
decision problem

uninteresting numbers,
12.1
,
12.2

University of Vienna

Updike, John

Uruk,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Vail, Alfred,
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
7.1

Vail, Theodore N.,
6.1
,
6.2

VanArsdale, Daniel W.

van Leeuwenhoek, Antony,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1

Vautroullier, Thomas

Verne, Jules

Victoria, Queen,
5.1
,
6.1

Vienna Circle,
6.1
,
6.2

Vigenère cipher,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

Vincent of Beauvais

viruses,
prl.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

vocabulary size,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7
,
3.8
,
3.9

growth of language,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Shakespeare’s

Volta, Alessandro

von Foerster, Heinz,
8.1
,
epl.1

von Neumann, John,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.1

Voyager
spacecraft

Wales, Jimmy,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
14.5

Wallace, David Foster

Walton, Stephen,
11.1
,
11.2

Washington, George

Wassall, Irma

Watson, David L.

Watson, James D.,
7.1
,
7.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
13.1

Watson, John B.

Watts, Duncan,
epl.1
,
epl.2

Weaver, Edmund

Weaver, Warren,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Weber, Wilhelm

Webster, Noah

Wells, H. G.,
6.1
,
9.1
,
14.1
,
epl.1
,
epl.2

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