From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!davidson
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Computer Science
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2131
Posted: Tue Jun 22 18:27:36 1982
Received: Sun Jun 27 04:26:33 1982
References: utcsrgv.403

To me the term Informatics refers more to Computer Engineering and
Digital Communications Engineering than to the more theoretical
branches of Computer Science, e.g., Automata Theory, Complexity
Theory, etc.  But is is very useful when you want to blur the
distinction between computing and communications technology.

The term Information Science, by the way, was preempted some time
ago by the people who study signal transmission, holography, and
other phenomena in which Shannon's definition of information is
used.  Unfortunately, this use of the term information clashes with
the computer science definition of information.  Oh well.

Greg Davidson