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OverloadAn overload is a situation where a machine or system is subjected to a greater load than it was designed for. Electrical overload can be caused by short circuit or by incorrect installation. Systems should incorporate suitable overload protection devices to prevent damage should such a situation occur.
Some computer languages support function overloading, and operator overloading. In hacker jargon, a word or is said to be overloaded if it can have multiple meanings, depending on context.
see also: Polymorphism (computer science)
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Managing information
Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
http://www.managing-information.org.uk/
Information Overload Annotated Webliography
Information Overload is a unique problem. Information tends to be everywhere and we have problems even to remember where we put it, much less what it is. Here is a small collection of links to increase your information overload about information overload.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml
We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload
Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects
Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html
Spinning Around
Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html
A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload
This article by David Kirsh, which appeared in Intellectica, distinguishes supply related overload from demand side overload and how environments must be designed to minimize overload's negative consequences.
http://icl-server.ucsd.edu/~kirsh/Articles/Overload/published.html
Information Overload: Fighting data asphyxiation is difficult but possible
By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine.
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1998/0200/infoload.html
The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce
Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/25283.html
New Age Heralds End of Information Overload
Reuters, the global information and news group, has published international research revealing pronounced differences in the way that nationalities around the world are coping with the information age. The research shows that while some countries are now leaving the age of information overload behind them, others at much earlier points on the evolutionary curve are only just entering it.
http://about.reuters.com/investormedia/news_releases/art_7-12-1998_id232.asp
Managing Information: Infoglut
New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
http://www.iweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm
The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload
This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation. (Acrobat File).
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/PAPER200.pdf
Information Management
Information Overload. Info-glut. Infobog. Data Smog. As information proliferates so do the labels for this malaise of the "Information Age." In this half-century, for the first time in history, the capacity for producing information is far greater than the human capacity to process it.
http://www.ericacve.org/docs/mr00009.htm
eCFO - Fighting Information Overload
Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,5839|||6,00.html
We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload
Scholarly article with definitions, statistics, problems and processes, trends, suggestions, conclusions, and references for further reading.
http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch
Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html
NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom
Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize, or analyze large numbers of documents. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html
How Much Information
An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload
Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.xml
Information Overload - An IR problem?
An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format.
http://www.computer.org/proceedings/spire/8664/86640065abs.htm
Informing Ourselves to Death
A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper
Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer
Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape.
http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html
Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc
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