information processing

Introduction
General considerations
- Basic concepts
- Information as a resource and commodity
Elements of information processing
- Acquisition and recording of information in analog form
- Acquisition and recording of information in digital form
  - Recording media
  - Recording techniques
- Inventory of recorded information
  - Primary and secondary literature
  - Databases
- Organization and retrieval of information
  - Description and content analysis of analog-form records
  - Description and content analysis of digital-form information
    - Machine indexing
    - Semantic content analysis
    - Image analysis
    - Speech analysis
  - Storage structures for digital-form information
  - Query languages
  - Information searching and retrieval
- Information display
  - Video
  - Print
    - Printers
    - Microfilm and microfiche
  - Voice
- Dissemination of information

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External Websites

Simply Psychology - Information Processing
Verywell Mind - Information Processing Theory in Psychology
National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Information Processing: The Language and Analytical Tools for Cognitive Psychology in the Information Age

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Vladimir Slamecka

Emeritus Professor of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Coauthor of National Information Systems.

Vladimir Slamecka

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information processing , the acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. In recent years, the term has often been applied to computer-based operations specifically. In popular usage, the term information refers to facts and opinions provided and received during the course of daily life: one obtains information directly from other living beings, from mass media, from electronic data banks, and from all sorts of observable phenomena in the surrounding environment. A person using...

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