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A Brief Introduction to Informatics

The Origins of the Word Informatics

In 1962 in France, a group started a software company called Societe pour L'Informatique et Applique (SIA). Phillipe Dreyfus, a French information system/software pioneer, was a principal founder. Dreyfus coined the word as a combination of information and automatic. Also in 1962 in the U.S., Walter F. Bauer founded a company named Informatics. Later the Association for Computing Machinery officially applied for permission to use the name. They wished to change ACM to Society for Informatics. But they were turned down on the advice of Bauer's lawyers. See http://www.softwarehistory.org/history/Bauer1.html

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