User talk:Michael Fourman

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[edit] Informatics

Hello, could you explain to me how informatics differs from information science. The term 'information science' seems to be used to refer to a field realted to library science, but also to a field which as far as I know is equivalent to 'informatics' (which the current article on information science describes). In turn the term 'informatics' seems to refer both to an academic discipline and is used as a prefix to refer to the computing aspects of the field it is attached to. I hope you are able to clarify some of this. Cheers, —Ruud 21:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

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Hi. Informatics, as used at Edinburgh, at least (and we think also more widely), includes computer science (complexity, algorithms, protocols, networking, programming and programming languages, distributed and concurrent computation, software and hardware architectures, computer and software engineering etc.) and AI (knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, natural language and speech processing, robotics, etc.) and cognitive science (cognitive neuroscience, cognitive modelling,etc.). It includes (and often combines) theoretical, engineering, social and experimental studies. In the UK, Information Science is closely tied to Library Science. When forming Informatics at Edinburgh (which brought together a number of existing units, including the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Artificial Intelligence, the Centre for Cognitive Science, the Human Communication Research Centre, the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Artificial Intelligence Applications institute) we considered Information Science as a name — but rejected it as too 'closed'. We thought Informatics was a name whose meaning we could define, by use, and stretch to fit our subject as it grew. For us, this has worked. We started with a vision, which has stood the test of time pretty well — and still fits the many new activities we now have that would not have fitted neatly into any of the earlier units. We have graduated thousands of students who think of themselves as informaticians , as well as (sometimes, even, instead of) computer scientists or cognitive scientists, or what-have-you. Our view (or at least my view) of Information Science (interpreted as Library Science) is that, like geoinfomatics, bioinformatics, medical informatics, and so on, it is an area of applied informatics, but not part of the core discipline. By contrast, parts of neuroinformatics or systems biology — for example, the parts where we study networks of neurons or networks of genes as information processing systems — do lie within the core discipline of Informatics, but are not part of Information Science as understood in the UK.

The upshot of this is that I think some of the material from Information Science should move to Informatics — and we should have cross-references. Michael Fourman 20:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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