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    Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level, it pertains to the interpretation...
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  • Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing...
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  • An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical...
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  • Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was established and put on a...
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    The Information Age is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established...
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  • mathematical statistics, the Fisher information (sometimes simply called information) is a way of measuring the amount of information that an observable random...
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  • Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the task of identifying and retrieving information system resources that are relevant...
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    A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic...
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  • Personal data, also known as personal information or personally identifiable information (PII), is any information related to an identifiable person. The...
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    economics, perfect information (sometimes referred to as "no hidden information") is a feature of perfect competition. With perfect information in a market,...
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    Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation...
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    In probability theory and information theory, the mutual information (MI) of two random variables is a measure of the mutual dependence between the two...
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  • Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically...
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    Information science is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement...
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    and economics, an information asymmetry is a situation where one party has more or better information than the other. Information asymmetry creates an...
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  • The information superhighway (from German: infobahn) is a late-20th-century descriptive phrase that aspirationally referred to the increasingly mainstream...
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  • Information Service(s), or information service(s) may refer to: Information broker services, provided by a company which collects data for use by a third...
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  • defines information literacy as a "set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is...
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    Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications...
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    Information management (IM) is the appropriate and optimized capture, storage, retrieval, and use of information. It may be personal information management...
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    Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated...
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  • In information theory, the information content, self-information, surprisal, or Shannon information is a basic quantity derived from the probability of...
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    A table is an arrangement of information or data, typically in rows and columns, or possibly in a more complex structure. Tables are widely used in communication...
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  • Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information...
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  • Information overload (also known as infobesity, infoxication, or information anxiety) is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making...
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  • Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets...
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    Information engineering is the engineering discipline that deals with the generation, distribution, analysis, and use of information, data, and knowledge...
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  • Information warfare (IW) is the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a competitive advantage...
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  • Information may also refer to: Information sign, a board or placard giving local information, or pointer to a tourist information source Information technology...
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    The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring...
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