Information

With the goal of constructing a coherent, systematic, and theoretical understanding of information as an entity in computer science and physics, describes its basic theoretical, physical, biological, philosophical, linguistic, and sociological properties. Some of the specific topics are the information processing of cosmic signals, the context-dependence of biological information, simple and complex models in science, and the genesis of information structures. The 19 papers are revised from their presentation at a multi-organization conference in Cottbus, Germany, May 1994. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.