Michael Dunn: Logic, Information, and Computation

Presented Oct. 9, 2013, in the Info-Metrics Seminar Series at American University in Washington, DC. Abstract: The development of the concept of information is traced from Plato to the Port-Royal Logic, on through Mill, Boole, Frege, Carnap, Bar-Hillel, Montague, Kripke, Shannon, and I relate it to algebraic representations of Stone, Priestley, myself, and others. I finish by introducing the concept of an information frame, generalizing the Routley-Meye