The Information (94 page)

MacKay, Donald M.
Information, Mechanism, and Meaning
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969.

Macrae, Norman.
John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More
. New York: Pantheon, 1992.

Macray, William Dunn.
Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1598–1867
. London: Rivingtons, 1868.

Mancosu, Paolo.
From Brouwer to Hilbert: The Debate on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920s
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Marland, E. A.
Early Electrical Communication
. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1964.

Martin, Michèle.
“Hello, Central?”: Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems
. Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 1991.

Marvin, Carolyn.
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Maxwell, James Clerk.
Theory of Heat
. 8th ed. London: Longmans, Green, 1885.

Mayr, Otto. “Maxwell and the Origins of Cybernetics.”
Isis
62, no. 4 (1971): 424–44.

McCulloch, Warren S. “Brain and Behavior.”
Comparative Psychology Monograph 20
1, Series 103 (1950).

———. “Through the Den of the Metaphysician.”
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
5, no. 17 (1954): 18–31.

———.
Embodiments of Mind
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1965.

———. “Recollections of the Many Sources of Cybernetics.”
ASC Forum
6, no. 2 (1974): 5–16.

McCulloch, Warren S., and John Pfeiffer. “Of Digital Computers Called Brains.”
Scientific Monthly
69, no. 6 (1949): 368–76.

McLuhan, Marshall.
The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
. New York: Vanguard Press, 1951.

———.
The Gutenberg Galaxy
. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.

———.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.

———.
Essential McLuhan
. Edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Quentin Fiore.
The Medium Is the Massage
. New York: Random House, 1967.

McNeely, Ian F., with Lisa Wolverton.
Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet
. New York: Norton, 2008.

Menabrea, L. F. “Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage. With notes upon the Memoir by the Translator, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace.”
Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève
82 (October 1842). Also available online at
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html
.

Menninger, Karl, and Paul Broneer.
Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers
. Dover Publications, 1992.

Mermin, N. David. “Copenhagen Computation: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bohr.”
IBM Journal of Research and Development
48 (2004): 53–61.

———.
Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Miller, George A. “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information.”
Psychological Review
63 (1956): 81–97.

Miller, Jonathan.
Marshall McLuhan
. New York: Viking, 1971.

———.
States of Mind
. New York: Pantheon, 1983.

Millman, S., ed.
A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: Communications Sciences (1925–1980)
. Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1984.

Mindell, David A.
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Mindell, David A., Jérôme Segal, and Slava Gerovitch. “Cybernetics and Information Theory in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union.” In
Science and Ideology: A Comparative History
, edited by Mark Walker, 66–95. London: Routledge, 2003.

Monod, Jacques.
Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. New York: Knopf, 1971.

Moore, Francis.
Travels Into the Inland Parts of Africa
. London: J. Knox, 1767.

Moore, Gordon E. “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits.”
Electronics
38, no. 8 (1965): 114–17.

Morowitz, Harold J.
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Morse, Samuel F. B.
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
. Edited by Edward Lind Morse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914.

Morus, Iwan Rhys. “ ‘The Nervous System of Britain’: Space, Time and the Electric Telegraph in the Victorian Age.”
British Journal of the History of Science
33 (2000): 455–75.

Moseley, Maboth.
Irascible Genius: A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor
. London: Hutchinson, 1964.

Mugglestone, Lynda. “Labels Reconsidered: Objectivity and the
OED
.”
Dictionaries
21 (2000): 22–37.

———.
Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005.

Mulcaster, Richard.
The First Part of the Elementarie Which Entreateth Chefelie of the Right Writing of Our English Tung
. London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1582.

Mullett, Charles F. “Charles Babbage: A Scientific Gadfly.”
Scientific Monthly
67, no. 5 (1948): 361–71.

Mumford, Lewis.
The Myth of the Machine
. Vol. 2,
The Pentagon of Power
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1970.

Murray, K. M. E.
Caught in the Web of Words
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978.

Mushengyezi, Aaron. “Rethinking Indigenous Media: Rituals, ‘Talking’ Drums and Orality as Forms of Public Communication in Uganda.”
Journal of African Cultural Studies
16, no. 1 (2003): 107–17.

Nagel, Ernest, and James R. Newman.
Gödel’s Proof
. New York: New York University Press, 1958.

Napier, John.
A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes
. Translated by Edward Wright. London: Nicholas Okes, 1616.

Nemes, Tihamér.
Cybernetic Machines
. Translated by I. Földes. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1970.

Neugebauer, Otto.
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
. 2nd ed. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1957.

———.
A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy
. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol. 1. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975.

Neugebauer, Otto, Abraham Joseph Sachs, and Albrecht Götze.
Mathematical Cuneiform Texts
. American Oriental Series, vol. 29. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society and the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1945.

Newman, M. E. J. “The Structure and Function of Complex Networks.”
SIAM Review
45, no. 2 (2003): 167–256.

Niven, W. D., ed.
The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1890; repr. New York: Dover, 1965.

Norman, Donald A.
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Nørretranders, Tor.
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
. Translated by Jonathan Sydenham. New York: Penguin, 1998.

Noyes, Gertrude E. “The First English Dictionary, Cawdrey’s
Table Alphabeticall
.”
Modern Language Notes
58, no. 8 (1943): 600–605.

Ogilvie, Brian W. “The Many Books of Nature: Renaissance Naturalists and Information Overload.”
Journal of the History of Ideas
64, no. 1 (2003): 29–40.

———.
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Olson, David R. “From Utterance to Text: The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing.”
Harvard Educational Review
47 (1977): 257–81.

———. “The Cognitive Consequences of Literacy.”
Canadian Psychology
27, no. 2 (1986): 109–21.

Ong, Walter J. “This Side of Oral Culture and of Print.”
Lincoln Lecture
(1973).

———. “African Talking Drums and Oral Noetics.”
New Literary History
8, no. 3 (1977): 411–29.

———.
Interfaces of the Word
. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977.

———.
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
. London: Methuen, 1982.

Oslin, George P.
The Story of Telecommunications
. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1992.

Page, Lawrence, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, and Terry Winograd. “The Pagerank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web.” Technical Report SIDL-WP-1999-0120, Stanford University InfoLab (1998). Available online at
http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
.

Pain, Stephanie. “Mr. Babbage and the Buskers.”
New Scientist
179, no. 2408 (2003): 42.

Paine, Albert Bigelow.
In One Man’s Life: Being Chapters from the Personal & Business Career of Theodore N. Vail
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921.

Palme, Jacob. “You Have 134 Unread Mail! Do You Want to Read Them Now?” In
Computer-Based Message Services
, edited by Hugh T. Smith. North Holland: Elsevier, 1984.

Peckhaus, Volker. “19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics.”
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
5, no. 4 (1999): 433–50.

Peres, Asher. “Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen, and Shannon.”
arXiv:quant-ph/0310010 v1
, 2003.

———. “What Is Actually Teleported?”
IBM Journal of Research and Development
48, no. 1 (2004): 63–69.

Pérez-Montoro, Mario.
The Phenomenon of Information: A Conceptual Approach to Information Flow
. Translated by Dick Edelstein. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2007.

Peters, John Durham.
Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Philological Society.
Proposal for a Publication of a New English Dictionary by the Philological Society
. London: Trübner & Co., 1859.

Pickering, John.
A Lecture on Telegraphic Language
. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1833.

Pierce, John R.
Symbols, Signals and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961.

———. “The Early Days of Information Theory.”
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
19, no. 1 (1973): 3–8.

———.
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise
. 2nd ed. New York: Dover, 1980.

———. “Looking Back: Claude Elwood Shannon.”
IEEE Potentials
12, no. 4 (December 1993): 38–40.

Pinker, Steven.
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
. New York: William Morrow, 1994.