Understanding Information

Part I. Introduction

1. From the Tannhäuser Gate to z8_GND_5296: A Day Trip on the Life-Cycle of Information
Alfons Josef Schuster

Part II. The World of Large and Small Systems

2. Expanding Beyond the Solar System: Current Observation and Theory
Ko Yamada, Satoshi Inaba

3. Information in Quantum Theory
Andrew Whitaker

Part III. The World of Living Things

4. The Potential of Plants and Seeds in DNA-Based Information Storage
Karin Fister, Iztok Fister, Jana Murovec

5. Memory Processing in the Nervous System
Naoyuki Sato

Part IV. The World of Intelligent Machines and Finiteness

6. From Computing Machines to Learning Intelligent Machines: Chronological Development of Alan Turing’s Thought on Machines
Katsuhiko Sano, Mai Sugimoto

7. Finite Information Agency
Alfons Josef Schuster

Part V. The World of Networks, Clouds, and Big Data Processing

8. Distributed and Connected Information in the Internet
Jürgen Vogel

9. Custom Hardware Versus Cloud Computing in Big Data
Gaye Lightbody, Fiona Browne, Valeriia Haberland

Part VI. The World of Society and Philosophy

10. Information Overload in a Data-Intensive World
Tibor Koltay

11. Causal/Informational Theories of Mental Content
Fred Adams

Keywords: Computer Science, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computers and Society, Coding and Information Theory