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Authors: James Gleick

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Chappe, Claude,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7

Chappe, Ignace,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Chappe, Pierre

Chappe, René

Charles Albert, King of Sardinia,
4.1
,
4.2

Cherry, Colin

chess-playing machines,
8.1
,
8.2

China,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1

Chomsky, Noam

chromosomes,
6.1
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
10.2

Churchill, Winston,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
7.1

circularity

in defining words,
3.1
,
3.2

Gödel’s critique of
Principia Mathematica,
6.1

in paradoxes

Clark, Josiah Latimer

Clarke, Roger T.

classification,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6
,
3.1
,
3.2

Clausius, Rudolf,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Clauson-Thue, William,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Clement, Joseph,
4.1
,
4.2

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

cloud, information,
14.1
,
14.2

clustering

Clytemnestra

code

attempts to reduce cost of telegraphy,
5.1
,
5.2

Babbage’s interest in

cipher and compression systems for telegraphy,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6

Enigma,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

genetic,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
10.7
,
10.8
,
10.9
,
10.10

in Jacquard loom operations

Morse,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
6.1
,
11.1

as noise

for printing telegraph

Shannon’s interest in,
prl.1
,
6.1
,
7.1

telegraphy before Morse code,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7

see also
cryptography

coding theory,
8.1
,
8.2
,
10.1
,
12.1

cognitive science,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

Colebrooke, Henry

collective consciousness,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3
,
epl.4
,
epl.5

Colossus computing machine

Columbus, Christopher

combinatorial analysis,
6.1
,
10.1
,
10.2

communication

by algorithm

with alien life-form,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5

Babbage’s mechanical notation for describing,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1

constrained channels of,
2.1
,
2.2

disruptive effects of new technologies in,
15.1
,
15.2

emergence of global consciousness,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3

evolution of electrical technologies for,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2

fundamental problem of,
prl.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1

human evolution and,
prl.1
,
prl.2

implications of technological evolution of,
15.1
,
15.2

information overload and,
epl.1
,
epl.2

knowledge needs for,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

in origins of governance

Shannon’s diagram of,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

as stochastic process

symbolic logic to describe systems of

system elements,
7.1
,
7.2

in Twitter,
epl.1
,
epl.2

see also
talking drums; telegraphy; telephony; transmission of information

compact disc,
prl.1
,
8.1
,
epl.1

complexity,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7
,
12.8
,
12.9

compression of information;
see
data compression

“Computable Numbers, On” (Turing),
7.1
,
7.2
,
12.1

computation

in Babylonian mathematics,
2.1
,
2.2

computable and uncomputable numbers,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

of differential equations,
4.1
,
4.2

in evolution of complex structures

human computers,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

thermodynamics of,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

Turing machine for,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6

see also
calculators; computers

computer(s)

analog and digital,
8.1
,
8.2

chess-playing,
8.1
,
8.2

comparison to humans,
8.1
,
8.2

cost of memory storage

cost of work of,
13.1
,
13.2

early mechanical,
prl.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
8.1

growth of memory and processing speed of,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4

inductive learning in

perception of thinking by,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

public awareness of

quantum-based,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

Shannon’s information theory in,
prl.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2

significance of information theory in development of

spread of memes through

Turing’s conceptualization of,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

universe as,
14.1
,
14.2

see also
calculators; computation; programming

Conference on Cybernetics,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7
,
8.8
,
8.9
,
8.10
,
8.11
,
8.12

Connolly, Sean J.

consciousness,
2.1
,
2.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3

continuous signal systems,
6.1
,
7.1

Cooke, William,
5.1
,
5.2

Cooper, Pat

Coote, Edmund

Coy, George W.

Crick, Francis,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5

Crow, James F.
n

cryptography

assessment of system security

Babbage’s work in,
5.1
,
5.2

early strategies,
5.1
,
5.2

Enigma system of,
7.1
,
7.2

information theory and

mathematics of,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
7.1
,
7.2

mental skill for

pattern recognition in,
7.1
,
7.2

perfect cipher system

popular interest in,
5.1
,
5.2

quantum,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

RSA encryption

Shannon’s work on,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6

Turing’s work on,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

voice encryption,
7.1
,
7.2

writing and,
5.1
,
5.2

see also
code

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