The Science Museum’s new Information Age gallery looks at the last 200 years of information and communication technologies, inviting visitors to take a long view on our ability to generate, share and store information. We focused the gallery on six technological ‘networks’ and chose transforming events – or moments in history – that show how people have created and shaped each new wave of socia...

We are constantly reminded that we live in an ‘information age’—an era in which production, consumption, and everyday life are all dominated by the pervasive presence and flow of information made possible by the digitisation of society. Amongst the hype, one might be forgiven for believing that information is something of a panacea, to be embraced by all. However, closer inspection suggests tha...

Information privacy is the primary issue discussed in the majority of papers about e-commerce security. We observed and confirmed from literature that while privacy is a voiced concern of consumers, it is not the insurmountable barrier to doing business. There are other information accuracy and operational issues that add or detract from consumer experience. We will discuss these using real-lif...

We consider a discrete-time multi-channel network where the destination collects time-sensitive packets from multiple sources with sided channel information. The popular metric, Age of Information (AoI), is applied to measure data freshness at destination. Due interference constraint, only disjoint source-channel pairs can be chosen for transmission in each time slot, and decision maker should ...