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James Gleick
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1. James Gleick
James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

James Gleick has written many books including .

2. The information
The InformationJames Gleick has written a very interesting book on the history of information called "The Information".

This is useful reading for anyone interested in computer/information science.

The book is available in PDF form via the Internet from a variety of sites.

Gleick, J. (2011). The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. Pantheon Books..

3. Chaos theory
Chaos book coverJames Gleick (American author and historical scientist) has written a very interesting book on the field known as "chaos theory" - a sensitive dependency on initial conditions. The field was accidentally discovered by the young French mathematician Henri Poincaré while attempting to find an exact mathematical solution for the three body problem.

Lorentz, in the weather field, rediscovered this idea and provided a name for it. The analogy is that, due to round-off errors in computations, it is "as if" a butterfly flapped it's wings in California and a typhoon resulted in China.
Gleick, J. (1988). Chaos: making a new science. New York: Penguin Books..

4. Knowledge
t is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness. James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

5. Seeing
You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it. James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

6. Middle
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

7. Destiny
The universe is computing its own destiny. James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

8. Redundancy
Redundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion. James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

9. World view
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

10. Information and attention
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. James Gleick (American author and historical scientist)

11. Microspeak
In computer programming, a bug is an error in software. However, Microsoft does not like to refer to bugs as bugs. Instead, the following terms have been used by their support staff when talking to customers.
Avoiding using the word "bug" has been christened "Microspeak", at least by James Gleick. Gleick, J. (September 1997). "A bug by any other name...", in Visual Basic programmer's journal, Vol 7, No. 10, p. 128..

12. From the MSDN: anomaly
MSDN Anomoly Tracking SystemThe MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) contains an ATS (Anomaly Tracking System).

The word anomaly is used often in database terms to refer to an error in the database. It sounds so much better than calling it an error or bug.

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