information engine

English

Noun

information engine (plural information engines)

1. (thermodynamics) A theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process.
2. (data processing) A data processor.
   • 2021, Michele Kennerly et al., editors, Information‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

     As one of its engineers blogged in 2012, Google was transforming itself from an “information engine” to a “knowledge engine.”

See also

• heat engine
• Maxwell's demon
• Szilard's engine
• Mandal-Jarzynski model

Further reading

• Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia