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  2. Flocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Flocabulary is a Brooklyn-based company that creates educational hip hop songs, videos and additional materials for students in grades K-12. [1] Founded in 2004 by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport, the company takes a nontraditional approach to teaching vocabulary, United States history, math, science and other subjects by integrating content into recorded raps.

  3. Information science - Wikipedia

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    Information science focuses on understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and then applying information and other technologies as needed. In other words, it tackles systemic problems first rather than individual pieces of technology within that system. In this respect, one can see information science as a response ...

  4. Entropy (information theory) - Wikipedia

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    The different units of information (bits for the binary logarithm log 2, nats for the natural logarithm ln, bans for the decimal logarithm log 10 and so on) are constant multiples of each other. For instance, in case of a fair coin toss, heads provides log 2 (2) = 1 bit of information, which is approximately 0.693 nats or 0.301 decimal digits.

  5. Flocabulary: The new Schoolhouse Rock

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    Meet Flocabulary, a program that teaches science, Shakespeare, SAT words and ancient civilization through hip-hop. The music, developed by producers who have worked with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige ...

  6. Information and computer science - Wikipedia

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    A lab in which computer and information science (CIS) is studied. Information and computer science (ICS) or computer and information science (CIS) (plural forms, i.e., sciences, may also be used) is a field that emphasizes both computing and informatics, upholding the strong association between the fields of information sciences and computer sciences and treating computers as a tool rather ...

  7. Ontology (information science) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, or entities that pertain to one, many, or all domains of discourse. More simply, an ontology is a way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are ...

  8. Information scientist - Wikipedia

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    The term information scientist developed in the latter part of the twentieth century by Wm. Hovey Smith [1] [2] [3] to describe an individual, usually with a relevant subject degree (such as one in Information and Computer Science - CIS) or high level of subject knowledge, providing focused information to scientific and technical research staff in industry.

  9. Indiana University School of Informatics - Wikipedia

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    Undergraduate programs include: [15] Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Data Science, Informatics, Intelligent Systems Engineering; Accelerated BS/MS Program in Computer Science, Information Science, Intelligent Systems Engineering, Library Science