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Informatics is broader in scope than:[[ information theory]]—the study of a particular mathematical concept of information; information science—a field primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information in human society; artificial intelligence—the study and engineering of intelligent behavior, learning, and adaptation, in machines; or [[computer science]]—the study of the storage, processing, and communication of information using engineered computing devices.
Informatics is broader in scope than:[[ information theory]]—the study of a particular mathematical concept of information; information science—a field primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information in human society; artificial intelligence—the study and engineering of intelligent behavior, learning, and adaptation, in machines; or [[computer science]]—the study of the storage, processing, and communication of information using engineered computing devices.
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'''Etymology'''
In 1957 the German computer scientist [[Karl Steinbuch]] published a paper called Informatik: Automatische Informationsverarbeitung (i.e. "Informatics: automatic information processing"). Informatics is commonly misunderstood to be the same as computer science. But Informatics is theoretically oriented contrary to computer science and therefore is more oriented towards mathematics than [[computer science]].
