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| Field | Foundations of Information Science | |
Field In the last 50 years there has been a considerable amount of theoretical development in the Information Sciences, which were originally based on earlier indexing concepts of Library Science and Early Bell Lab work on Information Science. Theoretical work has been done by Claude Shannon, W. Weaver, and Herbert Simon in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence; other important contributions have come from physics, system and cognitive sciences, and Semiotics. Recent work being done related to the study of information as a science includes a landmark publication in 1999 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner at the Vienna University of Technology on The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information. In 2003, Hans Christian Von Baeyer, a physicist at the College of William and Mary, published Information, the New Language of Science in which he said "information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of the Universe." His research was based on work by the Dean of American Theoretical Physics John Archibald Wheeler and Anton Zeillinger of the University of Vienna. |
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