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From: lambert@cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: LAST CALL: sci.commtech, sci.infotech, sci.informatics
Summary: Please not sci.informatics
Keywords: sci.commecth
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Date: 20 May 89 12:34:49 GMT
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In article <4158@bgsuvax.UUCP> klopfens@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Klopfenstein)
writes:

) sci.informatics may be an excellent name from a European perspective as 
) the word does seem to reflect our intentions, but it may be less familiar
) to U.S. users

"Informatics" is commonly used in the European academic community as
entirely synonymous to "Computer Science" (which does not translate well:
"Rechenanlagewissenschaft"? "la science des ordinateurs"?), and thus covers
the whole field including subjects like compiler construction, computer
architecture, etc.  It would be horribly confusing if the same term would
be coined in the U.S. with a different scope.
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--Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam; lambert@cwi.nl