Information

:"Info" redirects here; for other uses, see .info and NFO

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.info - NFO

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Information is a word which seems to have many different meanings, but is as a rule it closely relates to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus.

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Meaning - Knowledge - Instruction - Communication - Representation - Mental stimulus

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Many people speak of the advent of the information age, the information society, and information technologies, and even though information science and computer science are often in the spotlight, the word "information" is often used without careful consideration of the various meanings it has acquired. For example, in natural language, the terms knowledge or data are frequently used for the concept.

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Information age - Information society - Information technologies - Information science - Computer science - Knowledge - Data

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More precisely speaking, from a general systemic perspective Adam Maria Gadomski, 1993, information has two principal notions, a mathematical in the sense of Shannon's Information Theory where information is a measure of an ordering, and other, which covers quasi all other applications.

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Shannon - Information Theory

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According to most general cognitive, computer science and systemic visions, information is a property of signals, and they are data which represent a concrete property of a domain-of- interest/activity of a data processing entity.

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According to the TOGA meta-theory, it is "data which represent a specific property of the domain of human or artificial agent's activity (such as: addresses , tel. numbers, encyclopedic data, various lists of names and measurements)".

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