Informatics (disambiguation)

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Informatics is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of natural and engineered computational systems.

Informatics may refer to:

• Computer science, the scientific study of algorithms, information and computation
• Computing, any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers
• Computer engineering (called technical informatics), the creating of computing hardware
• Information science, an interdisciplinary study of information
• Data science, the field related to data analysis and data engineering
• Information technology, the study, design, development, implementation, support, or management of computer-based information systems,
• Cognitive science, study of information processing in natural systems (called 'cognitive informatics')
• Computational science, solving computational problems in natural sciences
• Information engineering
• Engineering informatics (not to be confused with informatics engineering, Southern European term)
• Library science