SI 110 Midterm: SI Exam 1 Study Guide.docx

• School: U of M
• Department: Information
• Course: SI 110
• Professor: Clifford Lampe

Document Summary

Information an act, a attribute, representation, measurement, event, signal, sequence, to shape. Wikipedia materials: a movement to bring free education to the world, watch page shows when people mess with your own stuff. Gleick discusses the find at uruk and the subsequent deciphering of the cuneiform tablets. What was interesting about these tablets, however, is that they were inane things like bills and recipes. But when donald knuth saw one at a museum, he called what he read "an algorithm. " Information has always been the exchange between human: enlightment era- pamphlets, journals, newspapers, societies, clubs, coffee houses, democracy, civil society, and colonialism, modern age- rise of distributed organizations- dutch east india company, Hudson bay company, and railroads : williams copying bath, binder, vertical filing system: all the different types of new machines are page 6 of notes, mass vs new media page 6 of notes, more and better ways.