Stand by, therefore, for another round of creative destruction in the field of information technology.
With the knowledge explosion in the 20th century, it was gradually subsumed under the more general field of information science.
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory.
Peter Elias, a theorist in the field of information and computer science, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
One potentially promising area to apply Ms. Koller's theoretical work will be the emerging field of information extraction, which could be applied to Web searches.
"It is almost certain," Scientific American declared bravely in 1952, "that 'bit' will become common parlance in the field of information, as 'horsepower' is in the motor field".
Each is a scion of the field of "information economics", and each boasts at least one canonical model inextricably associated with his name.
Shannon's paper, published the same year as the invention of the transistor, instantaneously created the field of information theory, with broad applications in engineering and computer science.
"Just as Rambo alone can destroy an entire army, one outstanding individual can repel a million enemies in the field of information security".
Heinz von Foerster, a physicist and a philosopher who was an early leader in the field of information theory, died on Oct. 2 at his home in Pescadero, Calif.
The field of information security is a fast-growing discipline.
