information engine
noun1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Thermodynamics A theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process.
2
A data processor.
Data processing
- As one of its engineers blogged in 2012, Google was transforming itself from an “information engine” to a “knowledge engine.”2021, Michele Kennerly et al., editors, Information, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- heat engine, Maxwell's demon, Szilard's engine, Mandal-Jarzynski model