Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Information science.
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- noun computing A branch of
information science and ofcomputer science , that focuses on the study ofinformation processing and particularly as respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
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- noun the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
Etymologies
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The term informatics embraces the modern concept of information in all its aspects: information management, infrastructure, processing, presentation, dissemination, design and analysis.
NKU News 2010
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The term informatics embraces the modern concept of information in all its aspects: information management, infrastructure, processing, presentation, dissemination, design and analysis.
NKU News 2010
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Climate informatics is just about processing information obtained from this platform.
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Hence, some sort of fitness landscape would apply (though not necessarily discriminatory with regards to symbols). eric: There is no definition of "evolution" in informatics that says or implies that a sequence of undecodable items can be evolved into decodable symbols in the absence of defined decoding mechanisms or supplying predetermined target sequence.
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There is no definition of "evolution" in informatics that says or implies that a sequence of undecodable items can be evolved into decodable symbols in the absence of defined decoding mechanisms or supplying predetermined target sequence.
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Given its supporters, one may think informatics is a widely taught discipline.
Buffalo News: Closing School of Informatics is a terrible mistake 2006
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Closure of the School of Informatics represents a reversal by UB, which established the school in 1999 to focus on the growing field of informatics, of which bio-informatics is an area of specialty.
Buffalo News: Closing School of Informatics is a terrible mistake 2006
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Programs in informatics are starting up, but their techniques seem valuable for libraries, but not so much for personal data management or efficiently [...]
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First, I think there is a major under-investment in informatics in health care in Ontario.
E-Health: The Potential for Radical Change to Health-Care Delivery 2001
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In my Guide to English Language Usage I say information technology (IT): The word informatics appears in dictionaries but is not in common current use.
artoparts commented on the word informatics
The interdisciplinary study of the design, application, and use of information and communication technologies (ICT's). It goes beyond purely technical aspects to provide a human-centered perspective, which takes into account the social, organizational, and cultural contexts of ICT design and use. link
October 30, 2008