{"id":1962,"date":"2010-07-16T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-07-16T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T11:40:35","slug":"informatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/informatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Informatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of the <em>Communications of the ACM<\/em> has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2010\/2\/69363-why-an-informatics-degree\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article about degrees in Informatics<\/a>, by Dennis Groth and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason.\u00a0 They present a nice definition of the subject in this para:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vision for informatics follows from the natural evolution of computing. The success of computing is in the resolution of problems, found in areas that are predominately outside of computing. Advances in computing\u2014and computing education\u2014require greater understanding of the problems where they are found: in business, science, and the arts and humanities. Students must still learn computing, but they must learn it in contextualized ways. This, then, provides a definition for informatics: informatics is a discipline that solves problems through the application of computing or computation, in the context of the domain of the problem. Broadening computer science through attention to informatics not only offers insights that will drive advances in computing, but also more options and areas of inquiry for students, which will draw increasing numbers of them to study computation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, these views are not uncontroversial, as the online experiences which motivated my parody <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/09\/computer-science-bastard-love-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> illustrate.\u00a0 The interesting experience of Georgia Tech, where the School of Computing is split into three parts \u00a0\u2014 Computer Science; Interactive Computing; and Computational Science and Engineering, \u2014 is described <a href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/blogs\/blog-cacm\/84197-cleaving-computer-science-into-new-degrees\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nDennis P. Groth and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason [2010]: Why an Informatics degree?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t computer science enough? <em>Communications of the ACM<\/em>, <strong>53 (2)<\/strong>:\u00a0 26-28.\u00a0 Available <a href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2010\/2\/69363-why-an-informatics-degree\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of the Communications of the ACM has an interesting article about degrees in Informatics, by Dennis Groth and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason.\u00a0 They present a nice definition of the subject in this para: The vision for informatics follows from the natural evolution of computing. The success of computing is in the resolution of problems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-computer-technology","p1","y2010","m07","d16","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}