What is a representation ?

What is information ?

17th January
Question of the day: Can machines think ?
Topic: Hommage to A.M.T.
Hero of the day: Alan Matthison Turing

24th January
Question of the day: Can machines understand ?
Topic: Programming languages and operating systems
Heroes: von Neumann, Ritchie & Thomson, Tanenbaum, Gates, Torvalds

31th January
Question of the day: Can machines evolve ?
Topic: Internet and the emergence of planetary A.I.
Heroes: Snowden, Nakamoto, hacker community

7th February
Question of the day: Can machines see ?
Topic of the day: Embedded systems and digital artefacts
Hero of the day: Limor Fried

14th February

The Futurological Congress AE1000000

What is information ?
What is NOT information ?

Etymology of the word "to inform"

early 14c., "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from Old French informer, enformer "instruct, teach" (13c.) and directly from Latin informare "to shape, give form to, delineate," figuratively "train, instruct, educate," from in- "into" (from PIE root *en "in") + formare "to form, shape," from forma "form". Sense of "communicate facts or news" first recorded late 14c.

Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/inform

• mathematician, electrical engineer, cryptographer, juggler & unicycler
• "father of information theory"
  
  
• (1937) A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits
• (1948) A Mathematical Theory of Communication
• inventor of the "Ultimate Machine"