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