Omnipresent Maxwell's demons orchestrate information management in living cells

The Omnipresent Computing Menace to Information Society

Computers have evolved from mere number crunchers to systems demonstrating an astonishing degree of sophistication, decision-making ability, and autonomy. Silicon is no longer the only substrate facilitating information processing. Despite these progresses, machine intelligence is still far from rivaling human intelligence. Nonetheless, we might be all too ready to rely on inferior agents for d...

Exercising Demons: A Molecular Information Ratchet

Nature uses molecular-sized motors and machines in virtually every important biological process and their extraordinary success is inspiring scientists to try to create synthetic devices that mimic the function of these amazing natural systems. However, it is far from obvious to see how to design such machines because mechanical behaviour at the molecular level, where everything is constantly m...

Beyond Information Silos - an Omnipresent Approach to Software Evolution

Nowadays, software development and maintenance are highly distributed processes that involve a multitude of supporting tools and resources. Knowledge relevant for a particular software maintenance task is typically dispersed over a wide range of artifacts in different representational formats and at different abstraction levels, resulting in isolated ‘information silos’. An increasing number of...

Omnipresent Technologies—Omnipresent Democracies? Morozov’s critique of serious online activism

Evaluation of health information requirement in management information System

Introduction: Considering the importance of information, providing the management with a reliable information system, can facilitate decision making regarding planning, organizing and controlling. This study aimed to analyze and evaluate information needs of managers at vice - chancellorship for treatment in Iranian medical science universities. Methods: This cross-sectional study was car...