Index of scientific and historical terms with occasional mention of Nixon

414 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? neurons 50, 98, 116 microtubules 281 nerve impulse speed 99 recovery time 121 synapse 119 Newcastle University 35 Newman, Max 221 Newton, Isaac 171, 319 Newton's Rings 321 New York University School of Medicine 12 Niels Bohr Institute 327 nitrocellulose 218 Nixon, Richard 194 Nobel, Alfred 365 Nobel Prize 30, 50, 100, 102, 119, 213, 326, 365 non-algorithmic xi non-computable processes 373 non-computable thought 261, 282 noncomputational creativity xi non-determinism 275, 282, 318 non-deterministic behavior 44 non-deterministic polynomial problems 165 noninvasive imaging techniques 11 nonverbal communication 84 Norvig, Peter 57 No Silver Bullet 237 No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering 231 Nova Institute 50 Nova Southeastern University 124 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 104 numbers counting system 181 defining 199 Godel numbers 203 infinity 179 nature of 155 prime 156, 243, 343 random 188 real 186, 280 Turing numbers 190 zero 179 Nyquist, Harry xiii O Occam's Razor 68 omnipotence 340 omniscience 340 On Computable Numbers and their Application to the Entscheidungsproblem 211 One Laptop per Child 35, 82 one-time pad 216, 337 opium 55 optical illusions 113 oracle function 278 order-of-magnitude 164 O'Reilly, Edward 50 Organon 149 Orwell, George 178 Outliers 37 Oxford English Dictionary 86 Oxford University xi, 50, 149, 205, 282 P paperclip test 298 paper tape 221 paradox xi, 68, 70, 114, 153, 203, 326 Barber paradox 155 EPR paradox 332 false 155 Kochen-Specker paradox 345 liar’s paradox 154 Russell paradox 155 Wiles paradox 247 Zenoss paradox 154 parallel lines 179 Paramecium 123-126 particle accelerator 69 Pasteur Institute 188 pattern matching 49 Pavillon de Breteuil 28 PC revolution 236 PDP11-34 236 Peano axioms 199, 205 Peano, Giuseppe 197, 199 Pelmanism 28 pendulum 121 Penrose, Roger xi, 50, 56, 123, 205, 246, 261, 282, 309, 328 Penrose Steps 51, 113 Pentagon 79 people living forever 20 Pérez, Shimon 81, 82 permutation of information 135 Persia 15 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016104