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