Word: gleick
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...Internet was built to be an open and cooperative system. That's its strength -- and its weakness. "It's a fragile environment," says Pipeline founder James Gleick. "There's no cleverness in breaking a system like Pipeline. We're not MCI. We're exactly the kind of small-scale operation that gives the Internet its vitality and richness...
...effort, Andreessen's team faces stiff competition. It comes both from Mosaic look-alikes, like MCC's MacWeb and Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic, and from a slew of new programs, like Netcom's NetCruiser and James Gleick's Pipeline, that work almost as well as Mosaic but don't require an elaborate Internet connection. If Mosaic has a weakness, it is that most computer users are not prepared to go through the hoops necessary to get it up and running. To address that problem, O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher based in Sebastopol, California, has introduced a product called Internet...
...been around for more than a decade, and its roots go back even further, but it is surging in popularity thanks largely to two popular books. They are, confusingly, Complexity, by M. Mitchell Waldrop, and Complexity, by Roger Lewin; both authors formerly wrote for the journal Science. Like James Gleick's wildly successful 1987 book Chaos, each volume attempts to convey to lay readers the basics of the science as well as the excitement it is generating among its practitioners. (Mini-review: Waldrop's book, a straightforward, detailed account, succeeds admirably; Lewin's, a chatty personal memoir, does...
...James Gleick makes clear in his monumental and deeply thoughtful biography, the Brooklyn-bred and -accented Feynman, who died of cancer in 1990 at 72, really was smarter than just about anyone else. He was a physicist's ( physicist who saw more deeply into the workings of nature than anyone but Einstein and perhaps a handful of others. His greatest achievement was the theory of quantum electrodynamics, which described the behavior of subatomic particles, atoms, light, electricity and magnetism. He also made significant contributions to areas outside his own field, including astrophysics, solid- state physics and computer science -- a rare...
Relying in part on sources never before made available to the public, Gleick explains with crystal clarity the paradoxes of quantum physics -- a subject that Feynman himself said nobody understands -- just as he laid bare the arcana of higher mathematics in his 1987 best seller, Chaos. Gleick also uncovers some of the forces that created a man who could devotedly nurse his first wife as she lay dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium a few miles from the wartime Manhattan Project, where he worked, yet later in life could make a sport out of picking women up in bars...