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TRABAJO PRÁCTICO N° 2

1. Look up in a dictionary the meanings of the following words:

 *Informatics: the sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storingand retrieving and classifying recorded information [syn: information science,

information processing , IP].

  *Computer: A machine that can be programmed to manipulate symbols.

Computers can perform complex and repetitive procedures quickly, precisely and

reliably and can quickly store and retrieve large amounts of data. (Hardware).

*Computing: the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of

computers) computable processes and structures [syn: computer science].

[Fantasdic 1.0-beta7]

2. Find information about:

  *Informatics: Informatics (academic field), a broad academic field

encompassing human-computer interaction, information science, information

technology, algorithms, and social science.

*Computer science/sciences:  Computer science or computing scienc e

(abbreviated CS) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and

computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in

computer  systems. Computer scientists invent algorithmic processes that create,

describe, and transform information and formulate suitable abstractions to model

complex systems.

*Information technology: (IT) Is the acquisition, processing, storage and

dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a

microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications. The

term in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the HarvardBusiness Review, in which authors Leavitt and Whisler commented that "the new 

technology does not yet have a single established name.” We shall call it information

technology(IT).

[WIKIPEDIA, The Free Encyclopedia]

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Similarities

• All definitions are connected with sciences, study, etc of some branch that

analyzes the information processing.

• These words' definitions include a computer's functions.

• They are all Also related to technology.

• Computer science and Information Technology, mention algorithms.

Differences

• Informatics is an academic area.

• Computer science is a science properly speaking. (Specific).

• Information Technology is referred to the technology itself. 

• Informatics also includes social science.• Computer science studies theoretical foundations.

• The basis of Information Technology include computing and

telecommunications.

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