computer scientist
Informatics is a term used to describe the set of sciences related to the storage, transmission, and processing of information in digital media. This group includes computer science, information theory, the calculation process, numerical analysis, and the theoretical methods of knowledge representation and problem modeling. Informatics can also be understood as the science that studies the set of information and knowledge through digital means. While the term informatics has the same broad meaning in dictionaries on both sides of the Atlantic, in Portugal it is synonymous with computer science, while in Brazil it is usually used to specifically refer to the process of information processing by electronic machines defined as computers. The study of information began in mathematics when figures such as Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, and Alonzo Church began to study what types of problems could be solved, or computed, by humans following a series of simple instructions, regardless of the time required. The motivation behind this research was the advancement during the industrial revolution and the promise that machines could one day solve the same problems faster and more efficiently. Just as industries handle raw materials to transform them into a final product, algorithms were designed so that one day a machine could process information.



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