Another conceivable method for associating documents with index terms would be in terms of the eigenvectors of $BB'$ and of $B'B$, where the primes still indicate transposition. By a theorem of Sylvester, the eigenvalues of $B'B$ are the sa…29. Good, I. J., Review of a book by G. S. Brown. Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 9, 254 (1958).
30. Good, I. J., How much science can you have at your fingertips? IBM J. Res. Develop. 2, 282–288 (1958).
31. Good, I. J., Speculations concerning informa…
Irving John Good
scientist · 3 mentions across 2 readings
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I.J. Good was a British mathematician and statistician who worked on computational theory and information retrieval in the mid-twentieth century, appearing here through citations on how machine logic might organize and retrieve data at scale. His work on speculative information systems is invoked to establish an intellectual genealogy for contemporary concerns about algorithmic sorting, prediction, and the feedback loops that emerge when computation becomes infrastructural. The excerpts position him as a figure who anticipated how information systems could become both powerful tools and sources of systematic distortion, relevant to the course's examination of how cybernetic thinking shapes social organization.
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