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James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Three of them have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States.

Life and work

Born in New York City, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a Private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and freelanced in Boston, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. The Harvard Crimson, the daily Student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873 After its demise, he returned to New York and joined the staff of the New York Times, where he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter.

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 word. Chaos Making A New Science is the best-selling book by James Gleick that first introduced the principles and early development of Chaos theory to the public The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in Chaos theory.

Among the scientists Gleick profiled were Stephen Jay Gould, Douglas R. Hofstadter, and Benoit Mandelbrot. Stephen Jay Gould (September 10 1941 &ndash May 20 2002 was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15 1945 in New York New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness thinking and creativity Benoît B Mandelbrot (born 20 November 1924 is a French mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. His early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the U. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer 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. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry Slate is a fine-grained foliated homogeneous, Metamorphic rock derived from an original Shale -type Sedimentary rock composed of Clay The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D

He was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989-90. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Gleick collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. Eliot Porter (1901–1990 was an American Photographer best known for his color photographs of nature Autodesk Inc ( is an American Multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design Software for use in architecture engineering 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. The Authors Guild is an advocacy organization of and for published authors The Key West Literary Seminar is a Writers conference and festival held each January in Key West, Florida.

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