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Hamilton, W. D.,
11.1
,
11.2

Hammurabi

Hardy, G. H.

Hardy-Ramanujan number

Hart, Sarah

Hartley, Ralph,
1.1
,
1.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1

Harvard University,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1

Hatto, Joyce

Havelock, Eric,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Hawking, Stephen,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

heat,
8.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
;
see also
thermodynamics

Hein, Jon

Heisenberg, Werner,
7.1
,
12.1
,
13.1

Hennig, Richard

Henry, Joseph

Herschel, John,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

hieroglyphics,
2.1
,
8.1

Hilbert, David,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Hobbes, Thomas,
prl.1
,
2.1

Hofstadter, Douglas R.,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4

Holland, Owen

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

holography

Homeric epics,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
11.1

Huffman, David

Huffman coding

Humphrey, Nicholas

Husbands, Philip

Husson, M.

I Am a Mathematician
(Wiener)

iatroepidemics

IBM,
8.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
14.1
,
14.2

ideas, compared to biosphere,
11.1
,
11.2
;
see also
memes

idiographic writing

Iliad
(Homer)

images

compressibility of

memes as

recording of,
14.1
,
14.2

imagination,
2.1
n,
4.1
,
4.2
,
7.1

Imitation Game (Turing),
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

incompleteness theorem

algorithmic proof of randomness and,
12.1
,
12.2

chaos theory and,
12.1
,
12.2

decision problem and,
7.1
,
7.2

proof of,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

significance of,
6.1
,
6.2

Turing machine and

indexes,
15.1
,
15.2
,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3

inductive reasoning

Infinities, The
(Banville)

“Information Is Inevitably Physical” (Landauer)

“Information Is Physical” (Landauer)

information overload

in Borges’s “Library of Babel,”
14.1

e-mail and,
15.1
,
15.2

filter and search strategies to prevent,
15.1
,
15.2

historical fears of,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

human–computer comparison of effects of

knowledge and,
15.1
,
15.2

manifestations of,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

meaning and,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3
,
epl.4

psychological studies of,
15.1
,
15.2

technological progress and,
prl.1
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3
,
15.4

information theory

attempts to add semantic counterpart to

on control of redundancy in messages,
7.1
,
7.2

cryptography and

development in England,
8.1
,
8.2

diagram of communication in,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

genetic science and,
prl.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
10.7

language as possibility in,
epl.1
,
epl.2

measurement of information in,
7.1
,
7.2

message value in,
12.1
-
3.1

noise source in,
7.1
,
7.2

origins of,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3
,
prl.4
,
7.1
;
see also Mathematical Theory of Communication, The
(Shannon, Weaver)

physics and,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3

place of meaning in,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
epl.1
,
epl.2

response of wider scientific community to,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7
,
8.8
,
8.9

response to Shannon’s initial publication,
8.1
,
8.2

significance of,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

in Soviet Union,
12.1
,
12.2

system states in

theories of psychology and,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7

see also
quantum information science

Internet,
11.1
,
11.2
,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3

It from Bit
(Wheeler),
prl.1
,
13.1

Jacobson, Homer

Jacquard, Joseph-Marie

Jacquard loom,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
12.1

James, William,
8.1
,
8.2

János, Neumann;
see
John von Neumann

Jaynes, Julian,
2.1
,
2.2

Jennings, Allan

Johannsen, Wilhelm

John of Salisbury

Johnson, John B.

Johnson, Samuel,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Johnstone, James

Joncourt, Élie de,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Jones, Alexander

Jonsson, Lars

Jowett, Benjamin

Judson, Horace Freeland

Just, Ward

Kahn, David

Karinthy, Frigyes

Kele language,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord

Kepler, Johannes

Kermode, Frank,
2.1
,
2.2

Keynes, John Maynard

Khwarizmi, Abu Abdullah Mohammad Ibn Musa al-

Kierkegaard, Søren

King, August Ada;
see
Lovelace, Ada

King, William

Klüver, Heinrich

knowledge

curse of omniscience,
epl.1
,
epl.2

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

epistemological theory of information

information overload and,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

limits to scientific investigation,
12.1
,
12.2

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

power of

as product of logic

requirements for communication,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

transmission of, through human history,
prl.1
,
prl.2

Knuth, Donald,
2.1
,
2.2

Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7
,
12.8

Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

Konversations-Lexikon,
epl.1

Lacroix, Sylvestre François

Lagrange, Joseph Louis

Landauer, Rolf,
13.1
,
13.2

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