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.
What you call data processing when people are so disgusted with it they won't let it be discussed in their presence.
The process of manipulating electronically encoded information at different levels. Ethiopic code and text processing are forms of information processing.
the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving and classifying recorded information
A general term for the processes by which information is identified, understood, stored, organised, retrieved, combined, and communicated to form new knowledge.
Methods used for collecting, retrieving, assessing, organizing, and storing information
In general, information processing is the changing (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process which describes everything which happens (changes) in the universe, from the falling of a rock (a change in position) to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system. In the latter case, an information processor is changing the form of presentation of that text file.