More and more information audio and video but also a range of other information type is
generated processed and used by machines today even though the end user may be a human. The
result over the past 15 years has been a substantial increase in the type of information and
change in the way humans generate classify store search access and consume information.
Conversion of information to digital form is a prerequisite for this enhanced machine role but
must be done having in mind requirements such as compactness fidelity interpretability etc.
This book presents new ways of dealing with digital information and new types of digital
information underpinning the evolution of society and business.
