Informatics Educational Institutions & Programs

{{About|the discipline}}

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== Different meanings ==

[[File:Informatics Forum - geograph.org.uk - 990363.jpg|thumb|right|200px|alt=Informatics Forum|[[Informatics Forum]], completed in 2008. It houses researchers of the University of Edinburgh's [[University of Edinburgh School of Informatics|School of Informatics]].]]

 

In the [[United States]], however, the term ''informatics'' is mostly used in context of [[data science]], [[library science]]<ref name="Wellisch 157–187"/> or its applications in [[Health care|healthcare]] ([[health informatics]]),<ref>{{Cite web|title=What is Informatics? USF Health|url=https://www.usfhealthonline.com/resources/key-concepts/informatics-defined/|access-date=2020-08-20|website=www.usfhealthonline.com|date=16 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Informatics Major|url=https://ischool.uw.edu/programs/informatics|access-date=2020-08-20|website=ischool.uw.edu|language=en}}</ref> where it first appeared in the US.

 

 

The [[Government of Canada]] uses the term to refer to operational units offering network and computer services to the various departments.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=informatics&index=enb&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs | title=Informatics &#91;100 records&#93; - TERMIUM Plus® — Search - TERMIUM Plus® | date=8 October 2009 }}</ref>

 

The earliest uses of the term ''informatics'' in the [[United States]] was during the 1950s with the beginning of computer use in [[Health care|healthcare]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last1=Nelson|first1=Ramona|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eROwDQAAQBAJ&q=Nelson+&pg=PP1|title=Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach|last2=Staggers|first2=Nancy|date=8 December 2016|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=978-0-323-40225-5|pages=7}}</ref> Early practitioners interested in the field soon learned that there were no formal education programs, and none emerged until the late 1960s. They introduced the term informatics only in the context of [[archival science]], which is only a small part of informatics. Professional development, therefore, played a significant role in the development of health informatics.<ref name=":3" /> According to Imhoff et al., 2001, healthcare informatics is not only the application of computer technology to problems in healthcare, but covers all aspects of generation, handling, communication, storage, retrieval, management, analysis, discovery, and synthesis of data information and knowledge in the entire scope of healthcare. Furthermore, they stated that the primary goal of health informatics can be distinguished as follows: ''To provide solutions for problems related to data, information, and knowledge processing. To study general principles of processing data information and knowledge in medicine and healthcare''.<ref>Imhoff, M., Webb. A,.&Goldschmidt, A., (2001). Health Informatics. Intensive Care Med, 27: 179-186. {{doi|10.1007//s001340000747}}.</ref><ref>Nelson, R. & Staggers, N. Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach. St. Louis: Mosby, 2013. Print. (p.4,7)</ref> The term [[health informatics]] quickly spread throughout the United States in various forms such as [[Nursing Informatics|nursing informatics]], [[public health informatics]] or [[Medical Informatics|medical informatics]]. Analogous terms were later introduced for use of computers in various fields, such as [[business informatics]], [[forest informatics]], [[legal informatics]] etc. These fields still mainly use term informatics in context of library science.

 

== Informatics as information processing science ==

{{See also|Cognitive Science#Namings}}

 

In the early 1990s, K.K. Kolin proposed an interpretation of informatics as a fundamental science that studies information processes in nature, society, and technical systems.<ref name=":0" />

In 2008, the construction of the [[Informatics Forum]] was completed. In 2018, the [[MIT Schwarzman College of Computing]] was established. Its construction is planned to be completed in 2021.

 

 

== Informatics as computer science ==

 

=== Related topics ===

* ''Neural Computing and Applications''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Neural Computing and Applications|url=https://www.springer.com/journal/521|website=Springer}}</ref>

* [[Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems|url=https://www.springer.com/journal/10458|website=Springer}}</ref>

* ''[[International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming]]''

* ''Journal of Scientific Computing<ref>{{Cite web|title=Journal of Scientific Computing|url=https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=23490&tip=sid|website=www.scimagojr.com}}</ref>''

* ''Annual [[Symposium on Computational Geometry]]''

* ''[[Simulation & Gaming]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simulation & Gaming|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sag|website=SAGE Journals|language=en}}</ref>

* ''[[Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science]]''

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== Community ==

 

=== Academic schools and departments ===

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* Information School at [[University of Washington]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=University of Washington, BS Informatics|url=https://ischool.uw.edu/programs/informatics/curriculum}}</ref>

* College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at [[University at Albany, SUNY]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=University at Albany, BS Informatics|url=https://www.albany.edu/cehc/programs/bs-informatics}}</ref>

==See also==

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* [[Behavior informatics]]

* [[Computational theory of mind]]

* [[Computer simulation]]

* [[Entscheidungsproblem]]

* [[Neural computation]]

* [[Real-time computing]]

 

== References ==

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