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   From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk   
      
   In article ,   
   occam   wrote:   
      
   >Can I ask - when was your university department renamed to Informatics?   
   >(My bet is on the 1990s, the start of the internet.)   
      
   It was 1998, and didn't really have anything to do with the internet.   
   Several departments were merged (including AI, CS, and CogSci) and   
   they probably wanted a word that didn't have too specific a meaning.   
      
   -- Richard   
      
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