Information Theory

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The...

Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the future.

Does information create complex order in the Universe? Have we focused too strongly on the energy-mater paradigm that we miss the relevance of information? Is information so obvious we don't see it? Do information-fields exist? Can information explain complex non-linear causality? And finally, is this a conscious Universe? In this brief book we explore all these subjects with a fresh perspective. We come from experience. For many years we have worked with achieving radical change in social systems and more specifically, with crime-prevention models. Our lab are cities and states were crime ...

Entropy is one of the most profound and misunderstood concepts in modern science — at once a physical quantity, a measure of uncertainty, and a metaphor for the passage of time itself. Entropy: The Order of Disorder explores this concept in its full philosophical and scientific depth, tracing its evolution from the thermodynamics of Clausius and Boltzmann to the cosmology of the expanding universe, the information theory of Shannon, and the paradoxes of quantum mechanics.

James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos...

If you are a beginner or seasoned professional in Information Technology this book explains the syntax and semantics of data model design. Models, Metaphor and Meaning looks at data modeling for information systems from the perspective of information theory, linguistics and semiotics in order to explain how models convey meaning. The book starts with a critique of William Kent’s classic Data and Reality and builds on contemporary themes in psycho-linguistics regarding metaphor as a key to our conceptual thinking. The book reviews Shannon’s Information Theory and analyzes the differences...

The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile...

✔️ Check ‘Systems Science and Social Systems: (Towards a Formal Theory of Social Systems)’. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F14YXJL7 Current Book: A New Look! A Fundamental Approach! 'System' is used for many objective or subjective things and carries a 'concept' with itself than a name for 'computer'. Evidences show that we are living in a world of 'objects' and related 'events'. Objects are the 'things' that have their 'order' or properties in the 'space'. Events are the 'happenings' in relation to the things that have their 'rule' or methods in the 'time'. 'News' as 'hot' subjects ...

Are you ready to become a master of strategic thinking? Look no further than The Game Theory Bible, your comprehensive guide to navigating complex decision-making scenarios. With 17 chapters covering everything from basic concepts to real-life applications, this eBook is packed with insights that will change the way you approach problem-solving. Whether you're a business owner looking to gain an edge over the competition or a student hoping to excel in game theory courses, this book gives you the tools you need to succeed. In Chapter 2, you'll learn the fundamental principles of game theory...

Can we change social systems? How can we understand and apply complexity principles to social order? We come from experience, we have worked in trying to radically change social systems in the past 25 years. Our lab have been communities and governments. Our most significant success has been our crime-prvention model which has helped many communities radically reduce crime in a very short period of time. We were intrigued by the success. Our theoretical background was Systems Theory and Total Quality Management, but we knew we were way out on uncharted territory. So we stepped into Chaos ...

What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's anti-disciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging - and necessary - than ever. To guide you through this broad ecosystem, this popular guide - now in its fourth edition - provides essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. UX designers, product managers, developers, and anyone involved in digital design will learn how to create semantic structures that will help people engage with your message.

The Logic of Communication: Exploring the Principles and Applications of Information Theory takes you inside one of the most important scientific revolutions of the modern age. From Claude Shannon’s groundbreaking insights in the 1940s to the ways information theory powers today’s digital world, this book reveals how the hidden rules of communication shape everything we do. Discover how information can be measured, compressed, secured, and transmitted across noisy channels with remarkable accuracy. Learn why entropy is central to understanding uncertainty, how redundancy and error ...

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can't fight lies with truth? Can a propaganda war ever be won? In the summer of 1941, Hitler...

Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the Digital Revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. His work gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass.

✔️ Check ‘Systems Science and Social Systems: (Towards a Formal Theory of Social Systems)’. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F14YXJL7 Current Book: A New Look! A Fundamental Approach! 'System' is used for many objective or subjective things and carries a 'concept' with itself than a name for 'computer'. Evidences show that we are living in a world of 'objects' and related 'events'. Objects are the 'things' that have their 'order' or properties in the 'space'. Events are the 'happenings' in relation to the things that have their 'rule' or methods in the 'time'. 'News' as 'hot' subjects ...

If keeping your business or your family safe from cybersecurity threats is on your to-do list, Cybersecurity for Dummies will introduce you to the basics of becoming cyber-secure! You'll learn what threats exist, and how to identify, protect against, detect, and respond to these threats, as well as how to recover if you have been breached!

✔️ Check ‘Systems Science and Social Systems: (Towards a Formal Theory of Social Systems)’. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F14YXJL7 Current Book: A New Look! A Fundamental Approach! 'System' is used for many objective or subjective things and carries a 'concept' with itself than a name for 'computer'. Evidences show that we are living in a world of 'objects' and related 'events'. Objects are the 'things' that have their 'order' or properties in the 'space'. Events are the 'happenings' in relation to the things that have their 'rule' or methods in the 'time'. 'News' as 'hot' subjects ...

There is not any simple and public definition of information. While information scientists have their own definitions, but even among the scientists, there is not a brief unique definition and theory about the information. At the first glance, ‘information’ is all the knowing we know about the things or happenings we deal with in our everyday life. If so, then the world we are living in, is in everywhere, so ‘information’ is everywhere! We can understand things and happenings with or without any investigation. This is the story of our everyday life from the time we wake up in the ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly...