information science
noun
: the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of recorded knowledge treated both as a pure and as an applied science
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Myers has a bachelor’s degree in natural resource management from Cornell University and a master’s in geographic information science from Penn State.
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Gili Malinsky,tasia Jensen, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Howe has previously worked at libraries in Illinois and Wisconsin and is completing her master’s degree in library and information science from Dominican University in River Forest.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
The talk was part of a two-day event held by BTO to bring together leading-edge technologists, start-ups, industry, and academic researchers to look at how advances in engineering and information sciences can be used to drive biology for technological advantage.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2015
Since the late 2010s, the United States and many other advanced countries have become increasingly involved in the race for leadership in quantum information science and technology, a field that encompasses quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum sensing.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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Gili Malinsky,tasia Jensen, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Howe has previously worked at libraries in Illinois and Wisconsin and is completing her master’s degree in library and information science from Dominican University in River Forest.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
The talk was part of a two-day event held by BTO to bring together leading-edge technologists, start-ups, industry, and academic researchers to look at how advances in engineering and information sciences can be used to drive biology for technological advantage.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2015
Since the late 2010s, the United States and many other advanced countries have become increasingly involved in the race for leadership in quantum information science and technology, a field that encompasses quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum sensing.
—Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for information science
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“Information science.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/information%20science. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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