Informatics as a science

The age of the information revolution in comparison with the agricultural revolution (8000-5000 BC) or industrial (1750-1850 AD) is small. But, despite its short history (as an official academic discipline), it has made a fundamental contribution to the development of science and society. Along with electronics, computer science as a science made it possible to realize the idea that this century will be characterized by the ability of people to transmit information freely and have instant access to data that was difficult or impossible to find earlier. This idea is connected with the advent of digital technologies. As a result, a transition is made from traditional industry to an economy based on the use of information. In our country, computer science began to be studied in schools since 1985.

The concept has several definitions. If we describe it as an area of human activity, then we can focus on three main interrelated parts. One of them is the branch of the national economy, the other is applied discipline. Both of them are based on the third component - it is informatics, as a science of a fundamental nature.

Its achievements are of great importance and implemented in computer systems, in purely theoretical fields and practical applications. This is the theory of computational complexity that studies the fundamental properties of mathematical objects, computer graphics, programming languages, human-computer interaction, research theory and description of calculations, and so on.

American sources claim that the term "computer science" (in American English, "computer science" and translated "computer science") was first introduced in 1961 by George Elmer Forsythe (1917-1972), who was engaged in numerical analysis and founded the Department of Informatics in Stanford University.

From other data it follows that the term Informatik appeared in 1957 and the primacy is given to the German scientist Karl Steinbuch. At the same time in France "Informatique" (the word came from the merger of two words of French: "information" and "automatique") began to be called the field engaged in automated processing of information. Therefore, we can assume that computer science as a science arose precisely in this period. In some large universities (for example, in the UK) "computer science" and now means "computing science". Currently there is no generally accepted, established or standardized definition of the term.

Informatics is a science that in its studies is also often intersected by other disciplines, such as philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, mathematics, physics, statistics and logic. Some believe that computer science is particularly closely related to mathematics compared to many scientific disciplines. Early computer studies were strongly influenced by the work of mathematicians such as Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. And at the present time it remains useful to exchange ideas with such areas as category theory, algebra and mathematical logic.

Science informatics is engaged in studying ways of obtaining, storing, accumulating, transmitting, transforming, protecting and using information data. It includes disciplines that relate to the processing of information by computer systems, the analysis of algorithms and the development of programming languages. Today its applied value has expanded considerably and covers many fields of science, life or production. Therefore, there are such sections as computer linguistics, business, geo-, chemo-, bioinformatics and others.

A vast area refers to natural computer science, this includes processes that take place in the human brain or society. The technical means used by informatics as a science or as an applied discipline are computer technology and technology.