To study these principles is to learn how English text music and pictures canbe compressed how it is possible to construct a digital signature that cannotsimply... » 

To study these principles is to learn how English text music and pictures canbe compressed how it is possible to construct a digital signature that cannotsimply be copied how beautiful photographs can be sent from distant planetswith a tiny battery how communication networks expand and how producers ofinformation products can make a profit under difficult market conditions. Thebook contains vivid examples illustrations exercises and points of historicinterest all of which bring to life the analytic methods presented presents aunified approach to the field of information science emphasizes basicprinciples includes a wide range of examples and applications helps studentsdevelop important new skills and suggests exercises with solutions in aninstructors manual. Professors A supplementary Solutions Manual isavailable for this book. It is restricted to teachers using the text incourses. «