James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Born in New York City, USA, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and freelanced in Boston, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. After its demise, he returned to New York and joined as staff of the New York Times, where he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter.
He was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989-90. Gleick collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. In 1993, he founded The Pipeline, an early Internet service. Gleick is active on the boards of the Authors Guild and the Key West Literary Seminar.
His first book, Chaos: Making a New Science, an international best-seller, chronicled the development of chaos theory and made the Butterfly Effect a household phrase.
Among the scientists Gleick profiled were Mitchell Feigenbaum, Stephen Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstadter, Richard Feynman and Benoit Mandelbrot. His early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the U. S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. Gleick's essays charting the growth of the Internet included the "Fast Forward" column on technology in the New York Times Magazine from 1995 to 1999 and formed the basis of his book What Just Happened. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, and the Washington Post.
Bibliography:
1987 Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking Penguin. (ISBN 0140092501)
1990 (with Eliot Porter) Nature's Chaos, Viking Penguin. (ISBN 0316609420)
1992 Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Pantheon. (ISBN 0679747044)
1999 Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Pantheon. (ISBN 067977548X)
2000 (editor) The Best American Science Writing 2000, HarperCollins. (ISBN 0060957360)
2002 What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier, Pantheon. (ISBN 0375713913)
2003 Isaac Newton, Pantheon. (ISBN 1400032954)
2011 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. New York: Pantheon Books. (ISBN 9780375423727 )
发表于2024-11-02
The Information 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
假期把《信息简史》看完了,说实话,很少给一本书打豆瓣的五星了,这本值。 看出了一点《失控》的感觉,只不过,这本更垂直,从信息的角度,贯穿了各个学科,还是那句上学的时候就深深认同的话: 《生物医学知识整合论》——是我们人类的科学活动而不是机体本身把机体分解为量...
评分原书英文名为 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood,直译过来是:《信息:一段历史,一个理论,一场洪流》。利用四个名词及其背后映射的意义空间来概括全书,中文版直接压缩为「简史」,损失了很多意味。作者詹姆斯·格雷克为著名的科普畅销书作家,本书让他花费了...
评分作者大名鼎鼎,图书本身也获得过大奖,我又是一个IT男,对历史有些兴趣,一开始我觉得这本书很适合我。 但是我读下来还是觉得累,整本书是关于信息史的,IT只是其中一部分。 整本算的科技史的范畴,虽然作者功力了得,但是还是有些门槛的。主要体现在:信息量特别大,都是关于...
评分虽然我是学理工科的,但对于信息的历史还是很片段的,我想大多数理科生都没读过香农的那篇录论文吧。 这本书让我了解了历史上还有巴贝奇这种NB人物,用机械艺术完成信息的加工,可能相对来说低效但是却蕴藏着惊人的思想。 关于哥德尔不完全性证明,图灵的不可计算的数,罗素...
评分虽然我是学理工科的,但对于信息的历史还是很片段的,我想大多数理科生都没读过香农的那篇录论文吧。 这本书让我了解了历史上还有巴贝奇这种NB人物,用机械艺术完成信息的加工,可能相对来说低效但是却蕴藏着惊人的思想。 关于哥德尔不完全性证明,图灵的不可计算的数,罗素...
图书标签: 信息论 科普 信息 计算机 历史 美国 JamesGleick 科学
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius , brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talking drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.
And then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers’ view of its subject.
An over-rated book for me. Apparently, the author is not of science or engineering training. There are lots of technical terms that will be far better explained if the reader goes to any authors in that particular field. However, it shouldn't be ignored that the author does devise an organized method to present the history of information.
评分First Shannon had to eradicate “meaning.” The germicidal quotation marks were his. “The ‘meaning’ of a message is generally irrelevant,” he proposed cheerfully. ( Chpt 7. 8. 9. 12 )
评分把“信息”大卸八块,追踪祖宗十八代,那些留下印记的人和事,跨约光子到黑洞,厚重的题材,优美的笔触。
评分有人愿意给Information Theory写一本科普读物,我感到很欣慰,当然这并不完全是我心里最期望的那种,我更愿意看到一个更从engineering perspective而不是science perspective出发的东西,所以有很多地方看得我昏昏欲睡。我一直觉得,相对于其他类别的作者,传记作家们常常会对笔下人物丧失基本客观的判断(《凯恩斯传》作者斯基德尔斯基声称凯恩斯在十二岁照片里的高颧骨和眼嘴角的柔和笑容就能显示出其将来是个不同凡响的人物。。。),对知名人物保有不可理喻的迷恋(我很怀疑Love小姐如果不是拜伦的女儿还会不会有这么多戏份),再者最烦人的就是他们对历史人物原话的不厌其烦的不厌其烦的引用,非常挫伤作品的连贯和简洁,所以我实在是不怎么喜欢这帮家伙
评分:无
The Information 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书