From: utzoo!utcsrgv!jrc Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Computer Science Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.403 Posted: Fri Jun 18 11:32:58 1982 Received: Fri Jun 18 11:42:00 1982 References: duke.2223 All this discussion on the (mis)nomer "Computer Science" for the particular discipline in which we all play some part seems like a waste. I would think that the majority of us realize that the discipline which we in North America like to call Computer Science certainly includes many aspects which can be (and are) studied quite independently of the existence of computing machinery. Perhaps the most reasonable solution to the controversy would be to adopt the standard name used by the most of the rest of the world for our discipline: Informatics, or possibly Information Science. This would seem to better capture the nature of our study, and avoid the implication that our only interest is in computing machines. The case for the name Informatics boils down to the same argument as the one for adopting the Metric system: communication and standardization with the rest of the world. Informatics, Information Science, Informatik, Informatique, - every place has a better name for it than us. Jim Cordy CSRG, U. of Toronto