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5 unusual facts about The Information


Jason Falkner

He is cited as playing assorted instruments on several tracks of Beck's 2006 album, The Information and 2008 album, Modern Guilt.

The Information

#* The Exoskeleton section contains dialogue spoken by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze.

Justin Stanley – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals, percussion, flute

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Research to improve these technologies ultimately led to our understanding the essentially digital nature of information, quantized down to the unit of the bit (or qubit).

Starting with the development of symbolic written language (and the eventual perceived need for a dictionary), Gleick examines the history of intellectual insights central to information theory, detailing the key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and John Archibald Wheeler.


The Mare's Nest

When it came to the attention of the authorities, "one night I was visited at my flat by men in belted raincoats who came and physically seized the chapter. I was summoned to the Cabinet Office, twelve men sitting around a polished table, where it was explained to me why the information was not being released and we appeal to you as an English gentleman not to release it."


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1969 Pacific hurricane season

The information is unclear on how Heather developed but she was first noticed on September 18 1,000 miles southwest of La Paz, Baja California.

Alok Dixit

With his reservations on the Intermediary Guidelines of the Information Technology Act, 2011 of India, Alok Dixit along with his colleague Aseem Trivedi started a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar to support the annulment motion in Rajya Sabha.

Anti-submarine warfare

The United States studied the German Type XXI and used the information to modify WW2 fleet boats with the GUPPY program.

Archibald Roberts

In 1959 he served as the information officer for Major General Edwin Walker who was the commander of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany.

Bernard Hyland

Each of the species described in the information system has the voucher evidence of dried, pressed, mounted specimens and preserved, bottled, wet specimens, held in the Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Cairns.

Brain connectivity estimators

The above measures provide information on the directionality of interactions in terms of delay (correlation) or coherence (phase), however the information does not imply causal interaction.

Broadband

A head end gathers all the information from the local cable networks and movie channels and then feeds the information into the system.

Cathróe of Metz

As well as the information it contains on events in Lotharingia and Germany, and on attitudes of the time, Cathróe's life is of particular interest to historians for the light it sheds on southern Scotland in the 10th century.

Cathy Davidson

In 2002, Davidson co-founded (with David Theo Goldberg) the virtual organization HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), an international organization dedicated to rethinking the future of learning for the information age.

Comparative economic systems

One of the most important early contributions was the calculation debate regarding the assertion of Ludwig von Mises that a system of central planning could never work because the information generated by a price system would never be available to planners.

Credo line

Information and Rating Agency Credo Line was established with support of foreign export credit agencies and Ukrainian partners in June 2008 with the view to achieving maximum transparency on the information market of CIS countries and qualitative improvement of rendered services.

Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts

The decision held that, while news organizations were protected from liability when printing allegations about public officials under the Supreme Court's New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision (1964), they may still be liable to public figures if the information they disseminate is recklessly gathered and unchecked.

David Paterson witness tampering and perjury scandals

March 18 - Paterson told John Gambling of WOR (AM) that he was the person who leaked the information about the February 7 conversation with Booker saying "the individual who first made it clear that there had been a conversation was myself." The New York Times responded by saying the Administration (via Kauffman) only responded after the Times specifically asked about the conversation.

Dhiren Barot

Much of the information about Barot's role in the planning of further al-Qaeda attacks came from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a prominent al-Qaeda operative captured by the Pakistani ISI.

Fleet telematics system

A Fleet Telematics System (FTS) allows the information exchange between a commercial vehicle fleet and their central authority, i.e., the dispatching office.

George Francis Lyon

But the information recorded about the Inuit tribes that he met proved valuable to later generations of anthropologists, such as Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, who relied on his journals as a reference point for their own observations.

Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology

The Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology (KC) is the information network of International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).

Hamdi Qandil

In 1998 Qandil responded favorably to the invitation of Safwat El-Sherif, the Information Minister in Hosni Mubarak's government, to return to Egyptian television.

Henry Howard Whitney

In 1898, under orders from the Secretary of War, he disguised himself as an English sailor, communicated with General Máximo Gómez, and made a military reconnaissance of the island of Puerto Rico, thereby gaining the information upon which General Nelson A. Miles based the Puerto Rican Campaign.

I-Space

The Information Space, or I-Space was developed by Max Boisot as a conceptual framework relating the degree of structure of knowledge (i.e. its level of codification and abstraction) to its diffusibility as that knowledge develops.

Information Sciences and Technology Building

The Information Sciences and Technology Building (commonly known as the IST Building) is a classroom building at Pennsylvania State University.

ISO 2709

A format for the exchange of bibliographic information, it was developed in the 1960s under the direction of Henriette Avram of the Library of Congress to encode the information printed on library cards.

Jason Fortuny

The Electronic Frontier Foundation indicated that Fortuny may be liable under Washington State Law, and that this would depend on whether the information he disclosed was of legitimate public concern.

Karin Magnussen

From a colleague, she received the information that more twins and family members with Heterochromic irises would be found in the Sinti family in Mechau from northern Germany.

Kazimierz Moczarski

In the Home Army, Moczarski (then an Ensign) was a member of the Information Department under the pseudonym “Rafał.”

Korremula

The Outer Ring Road, Hyderabad is passing through this village.Korremula is expected to get advantage from the INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT REGION (ITIR)announced by the Government of Andhra Pradesh in nearby Pocharam Village.

Manucher Ghorbanifar

Manucher Ghorbanifar has emerged as the probable origin of the information cited by Congressman Curt Weldon's book, Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America... and How the CIA has Ignored it (Regnery Publishing, June 2005) ISBN 0-89526-005-0.

MeadWestvaco

After an Arthur D. Little study indicated that the information retrieval product had a promising future, Mead Data Central launched it as the LEXIS legal research system in 1973.

MediaDefender

The e-mails also revealed direction by MediaDefender founder Randy Saaf to have developer Ben Ebert attempt to eliminate the information about MiiVi from MediaDefender's Wikipedia entry.

Moreton-in-Marsh railway station

Several of the information and direction signs around the station are bilingual – in English and Japanese.

Obstructing the field

The information was recorded by G. B. Buckley who found it in the Sheffield Advertiser dated 31 August 1792.

OpenGALEN

An important additional focus has been in developing tools and techniques with which we can map the information found in existing coding and Medical classification schemes to the GALEN Common Reference Model.

Operation Merlin

In late 2010, former CIA-officer Jeffrey Alexander Sterling was indicted for allegedly being a source for some of the information in Risen's book.

Optimus Primal

A recent interview with writer Tim Seeley indicated that the use of Teletran-1 by the Maximals and Predacons during the Beast Wars imprinted itself on the computer, allowing the information to be passed down to other Transformers.

Pearling

Pearl growing, a search method where the information in one article is used to find further relevant articles on a subject

Peter and Anneli's Journey to the Moon

Here is written the information, that Peter and Anneli have been the children of Oskar Kohnstamm and the grandchildren of Johannes Gad.

Sami al-Hajj

The director of the Joint Intelligence Group, Paul Rester, said: "I consider the information that we obtained from him to be useful", though he declined to offer any substantiation for this claim.

Sarah Tisdall

Although The Guardian successfully argued that it was protected by section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 from providing the information, the judgement by Justice Scott was almost immediately overturned.

Shahine Robinson

In November 2011, Robinson filed a challenge to the costs order in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it was excessive; she particularly objected to the J$5 million paid to professor David P. Rowe for a legal opinion about her citizenship, arguing that the information could have been obtained at much lower cost from U.S. government sources.

Social data revolution

The job market is even being shaped by the information people share about themselves on sites like LinkedIn and Facebook.

Strategy guide

In 2000, the Final Fantasy IX Official Strategy Guide was published by BradyGames, but much of the information was contained on Square's PlayOnline website.

The Last Mafioso

Author Ovid Demaris gained the information for the book from Fraitanno himself in the early 1980s, where they spent hours recording conversations between the two.

The Propitious Esculent

Reader presents the information and ideas in The Propitious Esculent building on the work of two important scholars: Redcliffe N. Salaman and William H. McNeill.

Tommykaira

According to the information spot provided by the PlayStation video game Gran Turismo 2 about the Kyoto-based company, "in 1988 Tommykaira succeeded in introducing Tommy Kaira M30, Japan's first fully modified high performance car ...while in 1997, it manufactured and marketed its original sports car, the ZZ".

Trinchera Cave Archeological District

The collection was taken and stored at the neighboring Trinidad State Junior College, but the information about the perishable items collection has not yet tabulated and published.

Vacarius

It is to Vacarius that we owe most of the information that has come down to us about Speroni, a heretic from Piacenza.

Vivek Kulkarni

He was the Information Technology & Biotechnology Secretary, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore.

Vysoký Hrádek

After changing hands dozens of times, in 1948, the estate was confiscated as part of land reforms in the country, and now houses the information center for the Temelín Nuclear Power Station.

Web science

An earlier definition was given by American computer scientist Ben Shneiderman: "Web Science" is a term that refers to processing the information available on the web in similar terms to those applied to natural environment.