Overview
- Enriches your understanding of information, technology, the information society and the relationship between them
- Explores how information is understood in a variety of domains
- Presents the life-cycle of information including acquisition, storage, manipulation, retrieval, dissemination and usage
Part of the book series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The World of Large and Small Systems
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The World of Living Things
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The World of Intelligent Machines and Finiteness
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The World of Networks, Clouds, and Big Data Processing
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The World of Society and Philosophy
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About this book
The motivation of this edited book is to generate an understanding about information, related concepts and the roles they play in the modern, technology permeated world. In order to achieve our goal, we observe how information is understood in domains, such as cosmology, physics, biology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, the Internet, big data, information society, or philosophy. Together, these observations form an integrated view so that readers can better understand this exciting building-block of modern-day society.
On the surface, information is a relatively straightforward and intuitive concept. Underneath, however, information is a relatively versatile and mysterious entity. For instance, the way a physicist looks at information is not necessarily the same way as that of a biologist, a neuroscientist, a computer scientist, or a philosopher. Actually, when it comes to information, it is common that each field has its domain specific views, motivations, interpretations, definitions, methods, technologies, and challenges.With contributions by authors from a wide range of backgrounds, Understanding Information: From the Big Bang to Big Data will appeal to readers interested in the impact of ‘information’ on modern-day life from a variety of perspectives.
Reviews
“This is a very good book! It’s a thought piece about a range of ideas that couples information across several disciplines and across large timeframes. … Each chapter has an extensive and good-quality bibliography. A quick citation search of the references suggests that the resources are well cited. This is a well-written book.” (Robert M. Lynch, Computing Reviews, April, 2018)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Information
Book Subtitle: From the Big Bang to Big Data
Editors: Alfons Josef Schuster
Series Title: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59090-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59089-9Published: 04 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86545-4Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59090-5Published: 26 July 2017
Series ISSN: 1610-3947
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8441
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 237
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computers and Society, Coding and Information Theory