• Knowing the potential impact of information systems and having the ability to put this knowledge to work can result in a successful personal career and organizations that reach their goals

We also present the main questions of information theory, data compression and error correction, and state Shannon's theorems. The main object of this book will be the behavior of large sets of discrete …

Information: The New Language of Science Erudite, wide-ranging, and insightful account of information theory. Contains no equations, which makes it very readable.

“Information behavior” is the currently preferred term used to describe the many ways in which human beings interact with information, in particular, the ways in which people seek and utilize information.

Here is an intuitive way of understanding, remembering, and/or reconstructing Shannon's Entropy metric for information. Conceptually, information can be thought of as being stored in or transmitted as …

theory and information theory. The intent was to develop the tools of ergodic theory of potential use to information theory and to demonstrate their use by proving Shannon coding theorems for the most …

Understanding the information timeline lets us know when we can expect information sources to appear in publication, and more broadly improves our understanding of the role each type of source plays in …