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- Title
One in a Million: Information vs. Attention.
- Authors
LESK, MICHAEL
- Abstract
Aristotle could write that we ascribe "universal education to one who in his own individual person is thus critical in all or nearly all branches of knowledge, and not to one who has a like ability merely in some special subject." Today nobody can know about everything. The flow of information so far exceeds what anyone can observe, learn, or appreciate that we must look at methods of compression, summarization, and filtering. These methods must achieve reductions of a million to one to cope with what is now routine. Fortunately, technology is making this possible.
- Subjects
SIGNAL filtering; COMPUTER simulation; PIXELS; VISUAL acuity; UNION Pacific Railroad Co. Inc.
- Publication
International Journal of Communication (19328036), 2012, Vol 6, p907
- ISSN
1932-8036
- Publication type
Article