Geodesy and Information Technologies

Geodezja i technologie informatyczne

Master's

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Field of studies: Geodesy and Cartography

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: engineering and engineering trades

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: www.uwm.edu.pl/en/

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Information

Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts. As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.

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Data, seeming facts, apparent associations-these are not certain knowledge of something. They may be puzzles that can one day be explained; they may be trivia that need not be explained at all.

Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (1979), Ch. 1 : Laws and Theories

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Information

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384.

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Edison, As quoted in Golden Book (April 1931), according to Stevenson's Book of Quotations (Cassell 3rd edition 1938) by Burton Egbert Stevenson.

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