Informatics and Computer Science

Informatics and Computer Science

Informatics

Informatics is one branch of science that is wide enough for almost cover and associated with many things about life, where a collection of informatics disciplines include science as well as specific techniques that process data into information with optimally utilize information technology or computer.

In the Indonesian language, a term derived from French Informatics informatique, which in German is called Informatik. Actually, the word is synonymous with the term computer science in the United States and computing science in the UK.

In terms pendefenisian informatics, according to Philippe Dreyfus (1962) and l'Academie Francaise (1967) that defines informatics as follows:

Collection Disciplines (scientific discipline) and the Discipline of Engineering (engineering discipline) that are specifically related to the transformation / processing of the "Facts Symbolic" (data / information), which mainly use the facilities automatic machines / computers.

In the English language has a slightly different meaning, namely more emphasis on aspects of information processing in a systematic and rational.

When viewed as a whole from an understanding of informatics at the top, logic and systematic approach is a fairly dominant feature of Informatics, given the approach is key in terms of getting the solution in solving various problems.

In principle, this scholarship emphasizes how a data and information can be processed in such a by-assisted automated technology.
Computer Science

In general, Computer Science, better known by the name of Computer Science (Computer Science, CS) is the study of computing, both hardware (hardware) and software (software). Computer science includes a variety of topics related to computers, from the abstract analysis of algorithms to more concrete subjects like programming languages, software, and hardware. As a discipline, Computer Science is different from computer programming, software engineering and computer engineering, even if the third term is often misunderstood.

Church-Turing thesis states that all computing devices that have been commonly known is the same in such matters, what they can do, albeit with different efficiency. This thesis is sometimes regarded as pronsip basis of computer science. Computer science experts usually emphasize the von Neumann computers or Turing machines, because that most computers used today. Computer scientists also study other types of machines, some practical (like parallel and quantum) and some are quite theoretical (like random and Oracle).

Computer Science learn what can be done by the program, and what is not (computing and artificial intelligence), how the program should evaluate the outcome (algorithm), how the program should store and retrieve specific bits of information (data structures), and how the program and users to communicate (the user interface and programming language).

Computer science is rooted in electronics, mathematics and linguistics. In the last three decades of the 20th century, computer science has become a new discipline and has developed its own methods and terminology.

The first computer science department was founded at Purdue University in 1962. Almost all universities now have departments of computer science. The highest award in computer science is the Turing Award, the winner of this award are all pioneers in their fields.