> > Oh well, I guess it's a bit late to try to rename the Computer > > Science discipline now. > The best I've heard is "Informatics" -- I have a vague impression > that this is a more European name for the field.
The word "Informatics" had been invented by a Soviet computer scientist Andrey Ershov several decades ago as a name for his view on Information Theory. In Russian, it is Информатика, Informatika, by analogy with Mathematics, Математика. It is widely used ever since both in russian-language literature and in many other languages and countries. It is a better name than either Information Theory or Computer Science for the discipline. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list