information processing

process of going through the information

Information processing is the change (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a  process which describes everything which happens (changes) in the universe, from the falling of a rock (a change in position) to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system. In the latter case, an information processor is changing the form of presentation of that text file. Information processing may more specifically be defined in terms by Claude E. Shannon as the conversion of latent information into manifest information . Latent and manifest information is defined through the terms of equivocation (remaining uncertainty, what value the sender has actually chosen), dissipation (uncertainty of the sender what the receiver has actually received) and transformation (saved effort of questioning - equivocation minus dissipation) .
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Noun
1. the sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information
(synonym) information science, informatics, IP
(hypernym) science, scientific discipline
(hyponym) natural language processing, NLP, human language technology
(part-meronym) computer science, computing
(class) queue

Synonym data processing.

(IPL) Said to be the first list-processing language, also the first language to support recursion. Written by Allen Newell, J.C. Shaw and H. Simon at Carnegie ca. 1956. It was very low level.
Versions: IPL-I (never implemented), IPL-II (1957 for JOHNNIAC), IPL-III (existed briefly), IPL-IV, IPL-V (1958, for IBM 650, IBM 704, IBM 7090, many others. Widely used), IPL-VI.
[Sammet 1969, pp. 388-400].
["Information Processing Language-V Manual", A. Newell ed, P-H 1965].
(1994-11-04)