E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, EPUB
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2928-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Drawing concepts from each of the constituent subfields that collectively comprise information science, Luenberger builds his book around the five "E's" of information: Entropy, Economics, Encryption, Extraction, and Emission. Each area directly impacts modern information products, services, and technology--everything from word processors to digital cash, database systems to decision making, marketing strategy to spread spectrum communication.
To study these principles is to learn how English text, music, and pictures can be compressed, how it is possible to construct a digital signature that cannot simply be copied, how beautiful photographs can be sent from distant planets with a tiny battery, how communication networks expand, and how producers of information products can make a profit under difficult market conditions.
The book contains vivid examples, illustrations, exercises, and points of historic interest, all of which bring to life the analytic methods presented:
Presents a unified approach to the field of information science
Emphasizes basic principles
Includes a wide range of examples and applications
Helps students develop important new skills
Suggests exercises with solutions in an instructor's manual