informatics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of informatics
Translation of Russian informátika (1966); see information, -ics
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Yes, it’s a defense mechanism that sometimes gets a bad rap, said Gloria Mark, a retired professor of informatics at UC Irvine — but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad for you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Under a special project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, KTU is running a module on the subject of informatics, allowing teachers to retrain and acquire additional IT competencies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
Harper, who went to high school in Sammamish, said he saw the need for this kind of resource after serving on the informatics department’s admissions committee.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
“If you lose your phone, and it’s a perfectly normal Tuesday..., you’re really in a bad way, right?” says Leysia Palen, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, who studies disaster informatics.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 11, 2023
“Most of us want to trust and respect our doctors,” said Dr. Isaac Kohane, a professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
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