Understanding Information : From the Big Bang to Big Data - Schuster, Alfons Josef; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Part I Introduction -- From the Tannh¨auser Gate to z8 GND 5296: A day trip on the life-cycle of information -- Part II The World of Large and Small Systems -- Expanding Beyond the Solar System: Current Observation and Theory -- Information in Quantum Theory -- Part III The World of Living Things -- The Potential of Plants and Seeds in DNA-based Information Storage -- Memory Processing in the Nervous System -- From Computing Machines to Learning Intelligent Machines:Chronological Development of Alan Turing's Thought on Machines -- Finite Information Agency -- Part V The World of Networks, Clouds, and Big Data Processing -- Distributed and Connected Information in the Internet -- Custom Hardware Versus Cloud Computing in Big Data -- Part VI The World of Society and Philosophy -- Information Overload in a Data-intensive World -- Causal/Informational Theories of Mental Content -- Index.
Keywords: Application software; Computers and civilization; Coding theory; Information theory; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computers and Society; Coding and Information Theory