HOW DID INFOMATICS BEGIN?

Konstantin Tsvetkov

Abstract


Informatics is a science for researching methods and processes for event, storing, treatment, analysis and estimation of the information, giving of opportunities to use it for taking decisions.  It includes disciplines, concerning processing of information in the computers and computer networks. It learns: the information from a point of view of its structure, numerical characteristics, shapes and ways of reviewing; the information processes, as a composition of the main information events, also the methods and the instruments for their automation.

Keywords


informatics, etymology, informatics structure, information resources, Sumerian abacus, calculating watches, Pascaline, jukebox, electro-mechanical digital computers, computer Z1, British Colossus, Computer Atanasoff-Berry, ENIAC, Generations of computers

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