About James Gleick
Updated: 2011-10-27 21:24:42
Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive About James Gleick was born in New York City in 1954. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and helped found Metropolis , an alternative weekly newspaper in Minneapolis . Then he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York . Times His first book, Chaos was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national bestseller . He collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature’s Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos : The Software His next books include the best-selling biographies , Genius : The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize , as well as Faster and What Just Happened They have been translated into twenty-five 
Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive Books The Information Fourth Estate , 2011 A tour de force This is intellectual history of tremendous verve , insight , and significance . Unfailingly spirited , often poetic , Gleick recharges our astonishment over the complexity and resonance of the digital sphere and ponders our hunger for . connectedness âDonna Seaman , Booklist PRE-ORDER : from AMAZON â¢Â from B N â¢Â or ANYWHERE Isaac Newton Fourth Estate , 2003 A masterpiece of brevity and concentration . Isaac Newton sees its angular subject in the round , presenting him as scientist and magician , believer and heretic , monster and man It will surely stand as the definitive study for a very long time to come . Fortunate Newton âJohn Banville , The Guardian
Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive Defining Information , Even More Una Macchina Automatica Posted on 7 October 2011 by gleick Indirect and abstract by its very nature , the telephone now seemed to be the positive symbol of my own situation : a means of communication which prevented me from communicating an instrument of inspection which permitted of no precise information an automatic machine , extremely easy to use , which nevertheless showed itself to be almost always capricious and untrustworthy . 8221 âAlberto Moravia , Boredom 1960 This entry was posted in Bookmark the permalink Defining Information , Even More Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published . Required fields are marked Name Email Website Comment You may use these
, Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive Secret No More : Google and Power Una Macchina Automatica Defining Information , Even More Posted on 2 October 2011 by gleick Here is a scholarly paper that caught my eye . It appears in the latest issue of the journal Information the title is âNaturalizing Informationâ the author is Stanley N . Salthe , a professor emeritus of biology from Brooklyn College . It attempts to create a better-than-ever , all-purpose definition of âinformation.â A meta-definition , perhaps I should say . Let me just quote the opening : sentences In this paper I forge a naturalistic , or naturalized , concept of information , by relating it to energy dissipative structures . This gives the concept a definable physical and material .
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