The Evolution of the Net

Networked Infrastructure from Telephony to Telesophy

Bruce R. Schatz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1408-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book describes the technology for the Net, the global infrastructure whose goal is immediate interaction with all the world's knowledge. Each stage of its evolution is explained with descriptions suitable for nonspecialists. Basic principles are illustrated with concrete examples from research prototypes in historical context to explain why certain functions emerged at certain times. This unique synthesis will enable scholars in many disciplines, especially biology and medicine, to plan new applications, as professionals in computer and information science create new foundations with emerging technologies. To achieve the visions to move from data and information to knowledge and wisdom, it is necessary to move beyond ideas from communications and linguistics into ideas from psychology and philosophy. The infrastructure evolution is from the network transmission of Telephony, the past mass communication medium of the 20th century, to the knowledge navigation of Telesophy, the future mass communication medium of the 21st century.

Autor

Bruce R. Schatz is a computer and information scientist, who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA. He was Director of Digital Library Research in the University Library, while Principal Investigator (PI) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Initiative project. He was Head of Medical Information Science in the College of Medicine, while PI of the multi-million-dollar NSF bioinformatics project in the Institute for Genomic Biology. He has unique viewpoints from four decades of leading-edge research on global networked infrastructure, including a decade as communications engineer in the Bell System. His Telesophy research there provided foundations of Internet browsing and searching, as described in his cover articles for Science magazine. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles. This book expands his 1997 Science article on Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries, and his 2011 book (with Richard Berlin) entitled Healthcare Infrastructure in their series on Health Informatics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2024
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• ISBN-10: 1-0364-1408-6 / 1036414086
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0364-1408-5 / 9781036414085
• Zustand: Neuware