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Informatics is the science of computer information systems. As an academic field it involves the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. The field considers the interaction between humans and information alongside the construction of interfaces organisation, technology and system. It also develops its own conceptual and theoretical foundations and utilizes foundations developed in other fields. As such, the field of informatics has great breadth and encompasses many individual specializations, including disciplines of computer science, information system, information technology and statistics. Since the advent of computers, individuals and organizations increasingly process information digitally. This has led to the study of informatics with computational, mathematical, biological, cognitive and social aspects, including study of the social impact of information technologies. == Etymology == In 1957 the German computer scientist Karl Steinbuch coined the word ''Informatik'' by publishing a paper called ''Informatik: Automatische Informationsverarbeitung'' ("Informatics: Automatic Information Processing").〔(Karl Steinbuch Eulogy – Bernard Widrow, Reiner Hartenstein, Robert Hecht-Nielsen )〕 The English term ''Informatics'' is sometimes understood as meaning the same as computer science. The German word ''Informatik'' is usually translated to English as ''computer science''. The French term ''informatique'' was coined in 1962 by Philippe Dreyfus〔Dreyfus, Phillipe. ''L’informatique.'' Gestion, Paris, June 1962, pp. 240–41〕 together with various translations—informatics (English), also proposed independently and simultaneously by Walter F. Bauer and associates who co-founded ''Informatics Inc.'', and ''informatica'' (Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, Dutch), referring to the application of computers to store and process information. The term was coined as a combination of "information" and "automatic" to describe the science of automating information interactions. The morphology—''informat''-ion + -''ics''—uses "the accepted form for names of sciences, as conics, linguistics, optics, or matters of practice, as economics, politics, tactics",〔Oxford English Dictionary 1989〕 and so, linguistically, the meaning extends easily to encompass both the science of information and the practice of information processing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Informatics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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