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2,731 concepts

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predictive maintenance — 20 books
first published 1967 added 24 Jan 2024
determining the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed
+14
Ford paid five dollars a day — 18 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 10 Jan 2017
+12
data science — 464 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 20 Nov 2021
an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.
+458
War on Poverty — 223 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
unofficial name for legislation first introduced by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964
+217
East Village — 206 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
+200
falling living standards — 128 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 29 Dec 2016
+122
private property rights — 181 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 14 Jan 2024
+175
traffic fines — 34 books
first published 1966 added 23 Jan 2017
financial penalties imposed for violations of traffic laws or regulations
+28
Turing test — 226 books
first published 1966
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human
+220
systems thinking — 217 books
first published 1966 added 9 May 2023
based on systems theory (broadly applicable concepts and principles, as opposed to concepts and principles applicable to one domain of knowledge; distinguishes, dynamic or active systems and static or passive systems)
+211
theory of mind — 212 books
first published 1966
+206
language acquisition — 100 books
first published 1966 added 20 Aug 2023
process starting early in human life
+94
Peace of Westphalia — 91 books
first published 1966
peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
+85
Margaret Mead — 188 books
first published 1966 added 30 Dec 2024
American anthropologist (1901—1978)
person
+182
urban sprawl — 338 books
first published 1966
+332
Merry Pranksters — 82 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
group formed around American author Ken Kesey
+76
Maxwell's demon — 31 books
first published 1966 added 24 Dec 2023
+25
speech recognition — 266 books
first published 1966
automatic conversion of spoken language into text
+260
job automation — 369 books
first published 1966
+363
job satisfaction — 230 books
first published 1966
+224
The last Blockbuster video rental store is in Bend, Oregon — 322 books
first published 1966 added 5 Mar 2023
the final remaining location of the once-ubiquitous video rental chain
+316
Steven Pinker — 311 books
first published 1966
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
person
+305
Ken Kesey — 113 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024 person
+107
prisoner's dilemma — 190 books
first published 15 May 1965
canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory
+184
RAND corporation — 531 books
first published 15 May 1965
+525
Mathematical Theory of Communication — 82 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 24 Dec 2023
1948 article by Claude Shannon
+76
Norbert Wiener — 171 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 3 Jan 2017
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
+165
Johannes Kepler — 152 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Oct 2020
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
person
+146
Maui Hawaii — 192 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+186
interchangeable parts — 141 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
components that are identical for practical purposes
+135
book burning — 112 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 21 Dec 2024
+106
invention of the telegraph — 56 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+50
universal Turing machine — 61 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 24 Dec 2023
turing machine that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on arbitrary input by reading both the description of the machine to be simulated as well as the input thereof from its own tape
+55
planned obsolescence — 111 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 9 May 2023
+105
Bletchley Park — 173 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Oct 2023
+167
photolithography — 36 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 27 Jan 2024
+30
zero-sum game — 655 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 18 Feb 2017
mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant's gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants
+649
John von Neumann — 288 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath (1903–1957)
person
+282
machine translation — 157 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
+151
stochastic process — 80 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
mathematical object usually defined as a collection of random variables
+74
Claude Shannon: information theory — 125 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+119
Louis Daguerre — 17 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor of the Daguerrotype (1787-1851)
+11
Suez canal 1869 — 195 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
+189
Enigma machine — 77 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
+71
Frederick Jackson Turner — 71 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 1 Apr 2025
American historian (1861-1932)
person
+65
Charles Babbage — 222 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 14 Nov 2021 person
+216
Suez crisis 1956 — 197 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 28 Oct 2021 event
+191
Trinity test — 42 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Aug 2024
+36
Turing machine — 172 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
abstract computation model; mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules
+166
classic study — 378 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2022
+372
Bob Bemer — 4 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 19 Feb 2025 person
heat death of the universe — 50 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Nov 2021
the idea that the universe will eventually reach a state of entropy from which it cannot recover
+44
end-to-end encryption — 57 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Jul 2023
cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties
+51
Republic of Letters — 62 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
long-distance intellectual community
+56
positional goods — 23 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+17
Alan Turing — 388 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
British mathematician, contributions to computer science and AI
+382
Searching for Interstellar Communications — 7 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
scientific article published in Nature
+1
Commentariolus — 12 books
first published 1962
work by Copernicus
+6
Right to Buy — 115 books
first published 1962 added 25 Feb 2017
+109
price discrimination — 85 books
first published 1962
pricing strategy of offering similar products at different prices according to buyers' willingness to pay
+79
currency risk — 113 books
first published 1962 added 11 Feb 2022
a financial risk that exists when a financial transaction is denominated in a currency other than the domestic currency
+107
death of newspapers — 121 books
first published 1962 added 20 Jan 2017
a term that refers to the decline of newspapers due to the rise of digital media
+115
minimum wage unemployment — 86 books
first published 1962
+80
floating exchange rates — 108 books
first published 1962
+102
backtesting — 53 books
first published 1962
the process of testing a trading strategy or model on historical data
+47
diversification — 227 books
first published 1962
+221
collateralized debt obligation — 270 books
first published 1962
a type of structured asset-backed security whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed-income underlying assets.
+264
experimental subject — 168 books
first published 1962
person who participates in human subject research by being the target of observation by researchers
+162
Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions — 115 books
first published 1962
+109
light touch regulation — 194 books
first published 1962 added 12 Feb 2017
+188
Fractional reserve banking — 81 books
first published 1962
banking system where bank holds reserves equal to fraction of deposit liabilities
+75
financial innovation — 377 books
first published 1962
+371
fear of failure — 258 books
first published 1962
+252
Black-Scholes formula — 101 books
first published 1962
a mathematical model used for calculating the theoretical value of European-style options
+95
credit crunch — 330 books
first published 1962
sudden reduction in the general availability of loans or credit or a sudden tightening of the conditions required to obtain a loan from banks
+324
asset-backed security — 142 books
first published 1962 added 9 Feb 2017
security with value derived from a commodity or asset
+136
central bank independence — 193 books
first published 1962
+187
risk/return — 145 books
first published 1962
+139
invisible hand — 738 books
first published 1962
economic concept popularized by Adam Smith
economics
+732
John Snow's cholera map — 79 books
first published 1962
+73
two and twenty — 89 books
first published 1962 added 29 Oct 2020
+83
market friction — 33 books
first published 1962
+27
Robert Metcalfe — 84 books
first published 1962 added 14 Feb 2017 person
+78
credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations — 175 books
first published 1962
+169
liquidity trap — 76 books
first published 1962
economics concept
+70
tacit knowledge — 160 books
first published 1962 added 1 Nov 2021
+154
low cost airline — 157 books
first published 1962 added 15 Oct 2020
airline with generally lower fares
+151
financial engineering — 394 books
first published 1962 added 1 Nov 2021
application of technical methods, especially from mathematical finance and computational finance, in the practice of finance
+388
Carl Icahn — 117 books
first published 1962 added 27 May 2023
an American businessman known for his activities as an activist shareholder
+111
p-value — 117 books
first published 1962
a statistic used in hypothesis testing to indicate the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis
+111
barriers to entry — 592 books
first published 1962
factors that make it difficult for new firms to enter a market
+586
Arthur Eddington — 73 books
first published 1962
an English astrophysicist best known for his work on the theory of relativity and the Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars.
person
+67
risk-adjusted returns — 118 books
first published 1962
+112
Deng Xiaoping — 345 books
first published 1962
a Chinese politician who served as the leader of the Communist Party of China and was instrumental in modernising China
person
+339
Zeno's paradox — 46 books
first published 1962
+40
road to serfdom — 178 books
first published 1962
+172
rent control — 239 books
first published 1962 politics
+233
carried interest — 88 books
first published 1962
share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager
+82
The Chicago School — 191 books
first published 1962
education organization in Los Angeles, United States
economics
+185
moral hazard — 373 books
first published 1962
+367