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Some UK institutions (including some pretty respected ones) adopted the term "School of Informatics" and confer Informatics degrees instead of using the term Co
by giobox 5y ago
Some UK institutions (including some pretty respected ones) adopted the term "School of Informatics" and confer Informatics degrees instead of using the term Computer Science.
I suspect the university marketing teams will eventually change this to Computer Science much like "Natural Philosophy" evolved into "Physics" at many places though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics
https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics
- waterfowl 5y agoKCL was Informatics and it was broadly classed w/ maths/'natural sciences' when I was there 10 years ago - according to a younger colleague they have since rebranded to CS.