1. Information Science

INFORMATION SCIENCE • Our perception of the concept of information science is based on the assumption that all organisms are information systems. • The information system is an environment of person, machines, and procedures that develop human biology potential to acquire, process and act upon data, thus improves our chances for survival.

Definitions • Science Any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experiment (research). • Information science A discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring of information. Fundamentally it covers all theories, concepts and methods in the collection, organization, storage, retrieval and use of information.

The boundaries of information science The basic structure of information science • Technology and Systems the application of IT • Impact of IT on society problems of information society, copyrights, personal privacy, plagiarism, etc. • Resources the human resources needed to sustain the activities of the science worldwide, encouragement of R&D, training, etc.

Foundational Disciplines • Philosophy provides infor. Sc. with the understanding of inquiry system (state of the world) and the foundation of the social sciences that are relevant to infor. system. • Mathematics (statistics). the foundation of statistics which is the tools used by infor. Scientist. • Linguistics the study of language, which is important to infor. Scientist as tool to represent events. • Behavioral science include psychology and sociology, important part for user study.

Related field of study in information Science • Informatics – the study of automation and automated technologies in document retrieving. • Information Engineering – refers to various aspects of infor. System design. • Knowledge Engineering – artificial intelligence & expert system. • Cybernetics – the science of control, include communications & system theory. • Bionics – the understanding of the functions & characteristics of living systems & biomechanical systems.