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   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote or quoted:   
   >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.   
      
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   |It's also not about computers.   
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