Definition of "information processing" []

• The processing of information, especially by computers, including the organization, distribution, and frequently the analysis of data and the presentation of results in easily understood form. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Although we live in a world in which computer processing speed doubles roughly every twenty-four months,2 human information processing has not expanded substantially over the past 150,000 years."
• "The government’s Office of Foreign Investment faced the decision of authorizing or rejecting IBM’s proposal, which had generated intense debate among various political groups and segments of the information processing industry."
• "Social information processing includes reading people’strue intentions, their feelings, their facial expressions."