Informatics Educational Institutions & Programs

'''Informatics''' is the study of computational systems.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=What is Informatics? University of Edinburgh|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/what20is20informatics.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=INFORMATICS {{!}} Bedeutung im Cambridge Englisch Wörterbuch|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/informatics|website=dictionary.cambridge.org|language=de}}</ref> According to the [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Europe Council and [[Informatics Europe]], informatics is synonymous with [[computer science]] and [[computing]] as a profession,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Are We All In The Same Boat? ACM & Informatics Europe|url=https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/cecereport.pdf}}</ref> in which the central notion is [[Information processing|transformation of information]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=What is Informatics? - Definition from Techopedia|url=http://www.techopedia.com/definition/30332/informatics|website=Techopedia.com|date=October 2014 |language=en}}</ref> In othersome countriescases, the term "informatics" ismay also be used with a different meaningmeanings, e.g. in the context of [[librarySocial sciencecomputing|social computing,]],<ref inname=":4" which/> caseor itin iscontext synonymous withof [[datalibrary storage]] and [[Information retrieval|retrievalscience]].<ref name="Wellisch 157–187">{{Cite journal|last=Wellisch|first=Hans|date=1972-07-01|title=From Information Science to Informatics: a terminological investigation|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/096100067200400302|journal=Journal of Librarianship|language=en|volume=4|issue=3|pages=157–187|doi=10.1177/096100067200400302|s2cid=62708018|issn=0022-2232}}</ref>

The [[University of Washington]] uses this term to refer to [[social computing]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Informatics Major|url=https://ischool.uw.edu/programs/informatics|website=ischool.uw.edu|language=en}}</ref> In some countries, this term is associated with [[Natural computing|natural computation]] and [[neural computation]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Forschungszentrum Jülich - Cognitive Neuroinformatics|url=https://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-7/EN/Forschung/Cognitive%20Neuroinformatics/_node.html|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.fz-juelich.de}}</ref>