In a previous post, I mentioned the death of Mark Burgin, theorist of Information, noting his many contributions to ‘gap bridging’ between the concept of information in different domains.
Those interested in Burgin’s ideas may like to know that the publishers MDPI have issued a set of Burgin’s open access papers in their journals (Information, Entropy, Philosophies, Big Data and Cognitive Computing, and Proceedings) as an open access book, entitled MDPI Selections | Transcending Conventional Studies of Information and Computation: Dedicated to the Memory of Mark Burgin, and downloadable as a zip file.
A special issue of the MDPI Philosophies journal in memory of Burgin is also in preparation.
And, of course, we also have Burgin’s own books:
Theory of Information: Fundamentality, Diversity, and Unification. Singapore: World Scientific, 2010.
Structural Reality. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2012.
Theory of Knowledge: Structures and Processes. Singapore: World Scientific, 2016.
I think there is no doubt that Burgin’s rich set of ideas, and his General Theory of Information in particular, will be a continuing inspiration for information theory research of the gap bridging kinds for many years to come.
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