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**Not to be confused with computer science
(noun, uncountable)
Informatics is the emerging scientific study of information and data acquisition, storage, processing, manipulation, and retrieval, and the development and engineering of information systems. Fields of informatics include bioinformatics, urban informatics, behavioral informatics (BI), geoinformatics, and ecoinformatics. Informatics is the short form for information sciences. Short forms are commonly adopted by many advanced technological disciplines including aeronautics and robotics. Aeronautics, for example, is an umbrella term for both aeronautical science and aeronautical/aerospace engineering.
See also: information sciences, information systems engineering, information engineering, emerging field
(noun, uncountable)
Informatics is the emerging scientific study of information and data acquisition, storage, processing, manipulation, and retrieval, and the development and engineering of information systems. Fields of informatics include bioinformatics, urban informatics, behavioral informatics (BI), geoinformatics, and ecoinformatics. Informatics is the short form for information sciences. Short forms are commonly adopted by many advanced technological disciplines including aeronautics and robotics. Aeronautics, for example, is an umbrella term for both aeronautical science and aeronautical/aerospace engineering.
See also: information sciences, information systems engineering, information engineering, emerging field
"To distinguish themselves from those in similar fields, people in the field of urban informatics are called either civil or urban technologists"
by PrehistoricFish August 27, 2020
May 22 Word of the Day
A moment that is generally agreed to have had a significant influence on pop culture and everyday life. While the term was coined by Rose McGowan in context of the #MeToo movement, and is mostly associated with the K-pop community, the phenomenon is universal and a basic component of how culture works.
Real world events such as social/political movements, the election of a new U.S. President, major catastrophes and disasters, as well as entertainment such as movies, music and TV, can all function as cultural resets. Notable cultural resets in relatively recent memory include:
* The Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964
* The Watergate scandal of 1974
* The release of Nevermind by Nirvana in 1991
* The September 11, 2001 attacks
* The election and inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009
* The COVID-19 pandemic
Real world events such as social/political movements, the election of a new U.S. President, major catastrophes and disasters, as well as entertainment such as movies, music and TV, can all function as cultural resets. Notable cultural resets in relatively recent memory include:
* The Beatles appearing on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964
* The Watergate scandal of 1974
* The release of Nevermind by Nirvana in 1991
* The September 11, 2001 attacks
* The election and inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009
* The COVID-19 pandemic
"The Nineties politically started with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolving on December 26, 1991, and ended with both the 2000 Presidential election which saw the victory of George W. Bush and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 which left people so stupefied that it functioned as something of a cultural reset button." - TV Tropes' article on the 1990s
by Spike from Degrassi February 09, 2021
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Some sort of watered down computer science rip-off. No one actually knows what it is, but everyone in academia likes to use the word.
by John Stigall April 23, 2005
3
A combined form of a number of computer-science disciplines. Like if you study a lot of different things in computer science, the course is known a an informatics cource.
by Gunkglumb June 06, 2005
4
An academic field, basically the same thing as computer science, it's a compound word of 'Information' and 'Mathematics'. Mostly used in europe.
Informatics cover a broad spread of topics, in general it is about data storage, procession and transmission. While it is a science on it's own, it can also be viewed as a meta science much like mathematics for the process of information gathering and processing taking place in all academic fields.
Has the advantage over the term "computer science" that people don't confuse it with learning how to operate a computer.
Informatics cover a broad spread of topics, in general it is about data storage, procession and transmission. While it is a science on it's own, it can also be viewed as a meta science much like mathematics for the process of information gathering and processing taking place in all academic fields.
Has the advantage over the term "computer science" that people don't confuse it with learning how to operate a computer.
"So uh, you study computer science?"
"It's called Informatics!"
"What's the difference?"
"Not much really, just the fact that Informatics doesn't have all too much to do with computers- just like computer science."
"Huh?"
" 'Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.'
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra"
"It's called Informatics!"
"What's the difference?"
"Not much really, just the fact that Informatics doesn't have all too much to do with computers- just like computer science."
"Huh?"
" 'Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.'
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra"
by Baal'Zebul February 27, 2011
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A subject very much like computer science.
Often used synonymous to computer science, particularly in European universities.
Often used synonymous to computer science, particularly in European universities.
#1: That guy is such a nerd. I bet he majors in computer science major.
#2: Actually his major is informatics. But there's no difference anyway.
#2: Actually his major is informatics. But there's no difference anyway.
by JimboDimbo April 18, 2010