James Gleick appears in the following:
What is Time?
Friday, December 23, 2016
How Time-Travel Stories Borrow from Einstein
Thursday, December 08, 2016
The Mind-Bending Reality of Time Travel
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Of Men and Myths
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Turing's Machines
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Alan Turing's mental leaps about machines and computers were some of the most innovative ideas of the 20th century. But the world wasn't kind to him. Turing was a math genius, a hero of World War II, and is widely considered to be the father of artificial intelligence. But in ...
The Turing Problem
Monday, March 19, 2012
James Gleick on The Information
Friday, May 06, 2011
James Gleick discusses how information has become the modern era’s defining quality and the vital principle of our world. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood looks at how we got to the current information age and where we are heading. It tells the story of information, explains how information technologies have changed the nature of human consciousness, and he writes of the key figures in the development of our modern understanding of information.
James Gleick's Information Overload
Thursday, March 10, 2011
We commonly describe the time we live in as “the information age.” More dramatically, some, like Eric Schmidt of Google, say we’re in the midst of an “information explosion.” But what, exactly, is information? Is it an idea? The documentation of an idea? James Gleick explores these questions in his new book “The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.” He joins us from Tampa, Florida.