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Information Science

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2012

About this book

From cell phones to Web portals, advances in information and communications technology have thrust society into an information age that is far-reaching, fast-moving, increasingly complex, and yet essential to modern life. Now, renowned scholar and author David Luenberger has produced Information Science, a text that distills and explains the most important concepts and insights at the core of this ongoing revolution. The book represents the material used in a widely acclaimed course offered at Stanford University.


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

Author / Editor information

David G. Luenberger is Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

Reviews

"This is a fascinating and enjoyable book to read. It is clear throughout the book that David Luenberger is an experienced teacher who has put careful thought into his writing. He wrote and uses this book for a course in the Dept. of Engineering--Economic Systems and Operations Research at Stanford University. The students range from sophomores to graduate students, and the book is very readable for students at all of these levels."---Susan Kelly, The UMAP Journal --- "Winner of the 2006 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Computer & Information Science, Association of American Publishers"

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION

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  • Part I: ENTROPY: The Foundation of Information
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    Chapter 2 INFORMATION DEFINITION

    9
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    Chapter 3 CODES

    21
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    Chapter 4 COMPRESSION

    35
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    Chapter 5 CHANNELS

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    Chapter 6 ERROR-CORRECTING CODES

    70
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    SUMMARY OF PART I

    89
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  • Part II: ECONOMICS: Strategies for Value
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    Chapter 7 MARKETS

    93
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    Chapter 8 PRICING SCHEMES

    114
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    Chapter 9 VALUE

    130
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    Chapter 10 INTERACTION

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    SUMMARY OF PART II

    161
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  • Part III: ENCRYPTION: Security through Mathematics
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    Chapter 11 CIPHERS

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    Chapter 12 CRYPTOGRAPHY THEORY

    186
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    Chapter 13 PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY

    200
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    Chapter 14 SECURITY PROTOCOLS

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    Summary of Part III

    237
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  • Part IV: EXTRACTION: Information from Data
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    Chapter 15 DATA STRUCTURES

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    Chapter 16 DATABASE SYSTEMS

    264
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    Chapter 17 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

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    Chapter 18 DATA MINING

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    SUMMARY OF PART IV

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  • Part V: EMISSION: The Mastery of Frequency
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    Chapter 19 FREQUENCY CONCEPTS

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    Chapter 20 RADIOWAVES

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    Chapter 21 SAMPLING AND CAPACITY

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    Chapter 22 NETWORKS

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    SUMMARY OF PART V

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    AUTHOR INDEX

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    SUBJECT INDEX

    411
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eBook ISBN:
9781400829286
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400829286
eBook ISBN: 9781400829286
Keywords for this book
Probability; Instance (computer science); Public-key cryptography; Encryption; Addition; Quantity; Information theory; Database; Result; Ciphertext; Information science; Economic surplus; Bit; Cipher; Binary search tree; Pricing; Calculation; Binary code; Random variable; Bandwidth (signal processing); Marginal cost; Conditional probability; Fourier transform; Parity bit; Radio wave; Expected value; Algorithm; Integer; Customer; Tuple; Word (computer architecture); Sorting algorithm; Percentage; Demand curve; Block code; Special case; One-time pad; Approximation; Summation; Shift register; Binary number; Ranking (information retrieval); Cryptography; Consumer; Requirement; Estimation; Common knowledge (logic); Notation; Huffman coding; Modulation; Sine wave; Theorem; Digital signature; Commodity; Binary tree; Conditional entropy; Quicksort; Letter frequency; Bibliography; Subset; Caesar cipher; Consideration; Channel capacity; Fourier series; Bubble sort; Substitution cipher; Time complexity; Value (economics); Measurement; Spreadsheet
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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