Information Processing

Definition: Information Processing

Information Processing

Noun

1. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.

Domain	Definitions
Computing	The systematic performance of operation upon data. Examples:handling, merging, sorting, computing, assembling, compiling. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In cognitive psychology, information processing is an approach to the goal of understanding human thinking. It arose in the 1940s and 1950s. The concept was to develop algorithms which augment intelligence, using computers, which had only been developed in the 1940s.

See also the Information Processing Languages (IPL), by Newell, Shaw and Simon.

Reference

Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition, Harvard University Press (1990).

External link

Herbert Simon's sketch of Allen Newell's lifetime accomplishments: [1].

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
INTAP	English	Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing	Computer - (org.)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Information Processing

Synonyms: informatics (n), information science (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
References	Japan Information Processing Service Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Models of Information Processing in the Basal Ganglia (reference) CJKV Information Processing (reference) The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Processing) (reference) Deducing Function from Structure: Information Processing in the Retina (reference) Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations: Ifip Tc8 Wg8.6 Fourth Working Conference on Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations, April 7-10, 2001, Banff, Canada (International Federation for Information Processing, 59.) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Communications Of Chinese And Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (reference) Advances In Neural Information Processing Systems (reference) Scientific & Technical Information Processing (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Cognitive symptoms occur when lesions develop in brain areas responsible for information processing. (references)
		Most children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome experience some degree of impaired intellectual functioning or information processing. (references)
		It is called the cortex, from the Latin word for bark. Most of the actual information processing in the brain takes place in the cerebral cortex. (references)
Business		The Korean market for computers and peripherals will continue to expand as modernization of information processing and innovations in management continue in the principal facets of the government, financial, and industrial sectors. (references)
		Apart from the fleet modernization plan, PIA has taken various improvement measures in the services sector which include in-flight service, flight kitchen, airport services area, reservations, information processing, aircraft appearance and cargo facilities. (references)
Political Economy	COLOMBIA	A commercial presence is required to provide information processing services. (references)
Trade	Jamaica	Under the Jamaican Free Zones Act, investors are allowed to operate outside Jamaican customs, solely with foreign exchange in activities such as warehousing and storing, manufacturing, redistribution, processing, refining, assembling, packaging, and service operations such as insurance, banking, information processing, and professional services. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "information processing": compiler Language for Information Processing ♦ federal Information Processing Standards ♦ information Processing Language ♦ information processing system ♦ international Federation for Information Processing ♦ knowledge information processing system. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "information processing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		databehandling (data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, it is often referred to as automatic data processing or ADP). (various references)

Dutch		informatieverwerking (data processing), gegevensverwerking (data processing). (various references)

Finnish		tietojenkäsittely (computing, data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"). (various references)

French		traitement de l'information, traitement de données. (various references)

German		Informationsverarbeitung (data processing), Datenverarbeitung (data handling, data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, Informatics, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"). (various references)

Greek		επεξεργασία δεδομένων (data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"). (various references)

Italian		trattamento dell'informazione (data processing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		イン�"ーダンス整合 (impedance matching, infant, inferiority complex, inferno, infield fly, infighting, informal, informal dress, informal organization, information, information analyst, information broker, information commercial, information democracy, information disclosure, information gap, information literacy, information processor, information provider, information retrieval, information revolution, information science, information society, information syndicate, information system, information theory, information utility, informed consent, informer, infrastructure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		インフォメーションプロセッシング . (various references)

Pig Latin		informationay ocessingpray

Portuguese		tratamento de dados (data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"), tratamento da informação (data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"), processamento de dados (data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"). (various references)

Spanish		tratamiento de la información (data processing), tratamiento de datos (data processing). (various references)

Swedish		informationsbehandling (data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, in the latter case, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"), databehandling (data processing, data processing may be performed by human beings or automatic means, datamation, data-processing, in the latter case, it is often referred to as " automatic data processing" or "ADP"). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 66 6F 72 6D 61 74 69 6F 6E 50 72 6F 63 65 73 73 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01010000 01110010 01101111 01100011 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#102 &#111 &#114 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#80 &#114 &#111 &#99 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0066 006F 0072 006D 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E 0050 0072 006F 0063 0065 0073 0073 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Country	Name
Japan	Japan Information Processing Service Co.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
information processing	29
information processing theory	25
federal information processing standard	8
computer information processing	7
cycle information processing	7
human information processing	6
cognitive information processing	3
information processing system	3
canadian information processing society	3
disorder information processing	3
information processing vermont	2
cognition information processing view	2
information processing specialist	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Information Processing

Definition: Information Processing