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Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behaviour, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information. It also develops its own conceptual and theoretical foundations and utilizes foundations developed in other fields. Since the advent of computers, individuals and organizations increasingly process information digitally. This has led to the study of informatics that has computational, cognitive and social aspects, including study of the social impact of information technologies. In some situations, information science and informatics are used interchangeably. However, some consider information science to be a subarea of the more general field of informatics. Used as a compound, in conjunction with the name of a discipline, as in medical informatics, bioinformatics, etc., it denotes the specialization of informatics to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline, and the incorporation of informatic concepts and theories to enrich the other discipline; it has a similar relationship to library science. In 1957 the German computer scientist Karl Steinbuch coined the word Informatik by publishing a paper called Informatik Automatische Informationsverarbeitung ("Informatics Automatic Information Processing")[1]. The English term Informatics is sometimes understood as meaning the same as computer science. However, "computer science" has a more restricted connotation.
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