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20:49 Mar 19, 2006 |
German to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Computers (general) | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Brie Vernier Germany Local time: 16:15 | ||||||
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information technology Explanation: Informatik is "computer science", although "informatics" is also quite common -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 mins (2006-03-19 20:54:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Webster's also offers "information science" for "informatics", which it says is "chiefly British" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2006-03-19 21:04:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ETH, for example, calls its Departement Informatik the "Department of Computer Science" http://www.inf.ethz.ch/index_DE The Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik calls itself variously the MPI for Computer Science and MPI for Informatics http://www.mpg.de/english/institutesProjectsFacilities/insti... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 28 mins (2006-03-19 21:18:06 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- See also Wikipedia for an extensive explanation (with a corresponding article in English, calling it 'computer science') http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatik |
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