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simultaneity

Six Degrees of Separation
(Guare),
epl.1
,
epl.2

Skinner, B. F.

Smalley, Sondra

small-world networks,
epl.1
,
epl.2

Smee, Alfred

Smith, Francis O. J.,
5.1
,
5.2

Smolin, John

social sciences,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Solomonoff, Ray,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

Sömmerring, Samuel Thomas von

Sophocles,
14.1
,
15.1

Southwell, Robert

Soviet Union,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

space exploration

Speculum Maius
(Vincent of Beauvais)

spelling,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

Spender, Stephen

Sperry, Roger

“spooky action at a distance,” (Einstein),
13.1
,
13.2

Sprat, Thomas,
2.1
,
3.1

statistical analysis,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1

steam power,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
9.1
,
9.2

Stent, Gunther,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3

Stevin, Simon

stochastic processes,
7.1
,
7.2

Stoppard, Tom,
9.1
,
9.2
,
14.1

storage of information

Shannon’s early calculations on,
7.1
,
7.2

sources of confusion in,
14.1
,
14.2

trends in,
14.1
,
14.2

Streufert, Siegfried,
15.1
,
15.2

Strogatz, Steven,
epl.1
,
epl.2

Stuart, Gilbert

Suetonius

superposition of states,
13.1
,
13.2

Surowiecki, James

surprise, as feature of information,
7.1
,
9.1

Susskind, Leonard

syllabary

symbolic logic

application to genetics,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

to avoid paradox

conceptual basis,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

conceptual origins of computers in,
6.1
,
6.2

to describe communication systems

to describe relay circuits,
prl.1
,
6.1
,
6.2

goals of
Principia Mathematica,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

incompleteness of formal systems of,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1

as mechanical operation,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
7.2

promise of,
6.1
,
6.2

search for perfect system of

symbols and symbol sets

in Babbage’s mechanical notation,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1
,
6.1

for cryptography

fo universal language

in Lovelace’s game solution formula

for measurement of information,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

for perfect language

redundancy of communication determined by,
1.1
,
1.2

in structure of language

for Turing machine

see also
alphabet(s); code; symbolic logic; writing

Szilárd, Leó,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
13.1

“Table Alphabeticall, A” (Cawdrey),
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7
,
3.8
,
3.9
,
3.10
,
3.11
,
3.12
,
3.13
,
3.14
,
3.15
,
3.16
,
3.17
,
3.18
,
3.19

Table of Constants of the Class Mammalia (Babbage)

Table of the Relative Frequency of the Causes of Breaking of Plate Glass Windows (Babbage)

Table of Triangular Numbers, (Babbage)

Tables for the Improvement of Navigation
(Briggs)

Table to find the Height of the Pole
(Briggs)

Tafelen van Interest
(Stevin)

Talbot, William Fox

talking drums,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
1.5
,
1.6
,
1.7
,
1.8
,
1.9
,
1.10
,
1.11
,
1.12

Talking Drums of Africa, The
(Carrington)

Tawell, John

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

telegraphy,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
4.1

address codes,
14.1
,
14.2

Baudot code for

bubble

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

as commercial business,
5.1
,
5.2

commercial interest in,
5.1
,
5.2

conceptual understanding of,
5.1
,
5.2

early systems for,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
5.8
,
5.9
,
5.10
,
5.11
,
5.12

electrical relays in

before electricity,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

in England,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

errors in

in France,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
5.8

growth of,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
5.8
,
5.9

infrastructure of

invention of,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

as medium,
5.1
,
5.2

operator’s key

perception of time and,
5.1
,
5.2

preservation of messages sent by,
5.1
,
5.2

private ciphers to reduce cost of,
5.1
,
5.2

public interest in codes and,
5.1
,
5.2

in Soviet Union

statistical structure of language in,
7.1
,
7.2

telephony and,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

trans-Atlantic,
5.1
,
5.2

waveform analysis in

weather reporting and,
5.1
,
5.2

see also
Morse code

telephony

architecture and

barbed-wire networks

biological metaphors for

commercial applications of,
6.1
,
6.2

concern about social effects of

demand for information and,
15.1
,
15.2

electrical engineering requirements of,
6.1
,
6.2

evolution of switching technology for,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

farmer cooperative networks of

growth of,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

measurement of information carried by,
prl.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5

printed directories,
6.1
,
6.2

relays in

signal distortion in,
prl.1
,
prl.2

in Soviet Union

telephotography,
6.1
,
6.2

teleportation,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

television,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
7.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

Teller, Edward

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord,
4.1
,
4.2

Terhal, Barbara

Théorie des fonctions analytiques
(Lagrange)

Theory of Heat
(Maxwell)

thermodynamics

of computation,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4

concept of entropy in,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

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