The Pipeline was the first ISP to offer a graphical user interface, incorporating e-mail, chat, Usenet, and the World Wide Web, through software for Windows and Mac operating systems. The Pipeline Īs a reaction to poor user experience with procmail configuration at Panix, Gleick founded The Pipeline in 1993, one of the earliest Internet service providers in New York City. It made the Butterfly Effect a household term, introduced the Mandelbrot Set and fractal geometry to a broad audience, and sparked popular interest in the subject, influencing such diverse writers as Tom Stoppard ( Arcadia) and Michael Crichton ( Jurassic Park). His first book, Chaos: Making a New Science, reported the development of the new science of chaos and complexity. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, and The Washington Post, and he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He wrote the 'Fast Forward' column in the New York Times Magazine from 1995 to 1999, and his essays charting the growth of the Internet formed the basis of his book What Just Happened. Department of Justice and the European Commission. His early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the U.

He worked there for ten years as an editor on the metropolitan desk and then as a science reporter.Īmong the scientists Gleick profiled in the New York Times Magazine were Douglas Hofstadter, Stephen Jay Gould, Mitchell Feigenbaum, and Benoit Mandelbrot. After its demise a year later, he returned to New York and in 1979 joined the staff of The New York Times. He moved to Minneapolis and helped found an alternative weekly newspaper, Metropolis. Biography Ī native of New York City, Gleick attended Harvard College, where he was an editor of The Harvard Crimson, graduating in 1976 with an A.B. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012 and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012. Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists and The Information was awarded the PEN/E.

Gleick's books include the international bestsellers Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011). He is part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park character Ian Malcolm. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called 'one of the great science writers of all time'. James Gleick ( / ɡ l ɪ k/ born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology.

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