James Gleick, the Glossary
James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology.[1]
Table of Contents
80 relations: Agency (philosophy), Alternative newspaper, Amazon (company), Arcadia (play), Artificial intelligence, Authors Guild, Autodesk, Bachelor of Arts, Benoit Mandelbrot, Butterfly effect, C-SPAN, Chaos theory, Chaos: Making a New Science, Christopher Lydon, Competition law, Douglas Hofstadter, EarthLink, Eliot Porter, Esther Dyson, European Commission, Experimental aircraft, Fractal, Graphical user interface, Greenwood Lake Airport, HarperCollins, Harvard College, Harvard University, Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park), Identity Theory (webzine), Isaac Newton, Janna Levin, Joel Spolsky, John Banville, Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park (novel), Key West Literary Seminar, Mandelbrot set, Michael Crichton, Microsoft, Minneapolis, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Motivation, National Book Award, National Book Foundation, New York City, Panix (ISP), Pantheon Books, PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, Princeton University, Procmail, ... Expand index (30 more) »
Agency (philosophy)
Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.
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Alternative newspaper
An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture.
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Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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Arcadia (play)
Arcadia is a 1993 stage play written by English playwright Tom Stoppard, which explores the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
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The Authors Guild is America's oldest and largest professional organization for writers and provides advocacy on issues of free expression and copyright protection.
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Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life".
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Butterfly effect
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
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C-SPAN
Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.
Chaos theory
Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics.
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Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science is a debut non-fiction book by James Gleick that initially introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public.
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Christopher Lydon
Christopher Lydon (born 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American media personality and author.
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Competition law
Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.
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Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. James Gleick and Douglas Hofstadter are American science writers.
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EarthLink
EarthLink is an American Internet service provider.
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Eliot Porter
Eliot Furness Porter (December 6, 1901 – November 2, 1990) was an American photographer best known for his color photographs of nature.
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Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is a Swiss-born American investor, journalist, author, commentator and philanthropist. James Gleick and Esther Dyson are the Harvard Crimson people.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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Experimental aircraft
An experimental aircraft is an aircraft intended for testing new aerospace technologies and design concepts.
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Fractal
In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
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Greenwood Lake Airport
Greenwood Lake Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) east of the central business district of West Milford, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
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Identity Theory (webzine)
Identity Theory is a webzine of literature and culture, founded by the University of Florida graduate Matt Borondy, established in 2000.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
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Janna Levin
Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College.
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Joel Spolsky
Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer.
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John Banville
William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter.
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park, later also referred to as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton and centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.
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Jurassic Park (novel)
Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton.
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Key West Literary Seminar
The Key West Literary Seminar is a writers' conference and festival held each January in Key West, Florida.
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Mandelbrot set
The Mandelbrot set is a two-dimensional set with a relatively simple definition that exhibits great complexity, especially as it is magnified.
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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
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Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.
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Motivation
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior.
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National Book Award
The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.
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National Book Foundation
The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established with the goal "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc.,Edwin McDowell.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Panix (ISP)
Panix is the third-oldest ISP in the world after The World and NetCom.
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Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint.
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PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
The PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) for writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Procmail
procmail is an email server software component — specifically, a message delivery agent (MDA).
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
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Reason
Reason is the capacity of applying logic consciously by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.
Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. James Gleick and Richard Feynman are American science writers.
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Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world.
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Rutan Long-EZ
The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a tandem 2-seater homebuilt aircraft designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory.
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Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. James Gleick and Stephen Jay Gould are American science writers.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Best American Science Writing
The Best American Science Writing was a yearly anthology of popular science articles published in the United States, which commenced publication in 2000.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873.
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current Information Age.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Phoenix (newspaper)
The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.
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The Pipeline
The Pipeline was one of the earliest American Internet service providers.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Time travel
Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future.
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Time Travel: A History
Time Travel: A History is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in 2016, which covers time travel, the origin of idea and of its usage in literature.
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Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.
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Usenet
Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House.
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West Milford, New Jersey
West Milford is a township in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
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References
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