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 of computer science, that focuses on the study of information 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

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[informat(ion) + –ics.]

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Coined 1957 or shortly thereafter from information +‎ -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • Climate informatics is just about processing information obtained from this platform.

    Climate Change Informatics – a proposal | Serendipity 2009

  • 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.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • 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.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • Given its supporters, one may think informatics is a widely taught discipline.

    Buffalo News: Closing School of Informatics is a terrible mistake 2006

  • 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

  • Programs in informatics are starting up, but their techniques seem valuable for libraries, but not so much for personal data management or efficiently [...]

    February | 2005 | Impromptus 2005

  • 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

  • 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.

    14 posts from February 2009 2009

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  • 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