X-Nico

unusual facts about Informatics


Filippo Menczer

Filippo Menczer is an American professor of informatics and computer science who is a director at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a department of Indiana University School of Informatics.


Accelrys

The Accelrys Enterprise Platform, a scientifically aware, service-oriented architecture (SOA) spanning data management and informatics, enterprise lab management, modeling and simulation, and workflow automation.

Ahmad Motamedi

Motamedi earned his BS in Electronics from Amirkabir University of Technology in 1978 and his MS and PhD, both in Digital Electronics and Informatics Systems, from Pierre and Marie Curie University, France, in 1980 and 1983 respectively.

Andhra Mahila Sabha School of Informatics

The Andhra Mahila Sabha School Of Informatics is a school of informatics for women located in Hyderabad in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.

Australian Student Prize

Medallists from Australia's teams in the International Biology, Chemistry, Informatics, Mathematics and Physics Olympiads also receive the Australian Student Prize.

Belarus Space Agency

Additionally Belarus plans to set up own Flight Control Center in the building of the United Institute of Informatics Problems in Minsk.

Birger Møller-Pedersen

Møller-Pedersen is a Professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

CDFD is Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence in Medical Bio-informatics, supported with a strong bioinformatics facility, and is the India node of the EMBnet.

CGAL

The project started in 1996 as the pooling of the previous efforts of several project participants:PlaGeo and SpaGeo from Utrecht University, LEDA of the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics and C++GAL of INRIA Sophia Antipolis.

Community informatics

A key conceptual element and framing concept for Community Informatics is that of "effective use" introduced initially by Michael Gurstein in a critique of a research pre-occupation with the Digital Divide as ICT "access".

David L. Reich

His areas of research interest in anesthesiology include informatics, cardiac anesthesia, hemodynamic monitoring, deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and practice management.

Edward H. Shortliffe

He has served as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2009-2012 and continues to hold adjunct faculty appointments in biomedical informatics at Columbia University and Arizona State University.

He has held administrative positions in academic medicine, research and national bodies including the Institute of Medicine, American College of Physicians, the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and National Library of Medicine (NLM), and been influential in the development of medicine, computing and biomedical informatics nationally and internationally.

Genome browser

The app, developed by the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides a functional presentation of the popular UCSC Genome Browser.

Geoffrey Fox

Geoffrey C. Fox (born 1944), professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University

Gisle Hannemyr

Gisle Hannemyr (born 1953) is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo.

Health communication

1999 – The National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health) establishes the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) in their Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

Health Information Systems Programme

The global network of HISP is managed and coordinated by the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo.

Heimar de Fátima Marin

Heimar Marin is also the President of Brazilian Society of Health Informatics (2002–2008); Associate-editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics; and Vice-chair and Elected Chair (2009–2012) of the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA NI SIG).

ILUG-Delhi

In the months of June, July and August 2006, a bio-informatics workshop was run in collaboration with JNU Bio Informatics Centre, to develop FOSS solutions in Bio-Informatics field and to nurture talent in FOSS tools and languages.

Informatics Institute of Technology

IIT, Informatics Institute of Technology (formerly IICS, Informatics Institute of Computer Studies) is a private higher educational institute in Sri Lanka which specializes in Information Technology.

Ingar Roggen

The late Rob Kling, who had been given a personal introduction by Stein Bråten to the ongoing research on social informatics at the University of Oslo in 1986, and also had noted the introduction of web sociology in January 1996, established the American branch of social informatics at Indiana University later that year.

Institute of Informatics and Communication

Institute of Informatics and Communication is a constituent institute of the University of Delhi, in New Delhi, India.

The institute provides studies in the field of informatics, which is essentially a blend of three domains: networking, telecommunication and software, on three major platforms: Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

Internet in Cuba

According to Boris Moreno Cordoves, Deputy Minister of Informatics and Communications, the Torricelli Act (part of the United States embargo against Cuba) identified the telecommunications sector as a tool for subversion of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, and the necessary technology has been conditioned by counter-revolutionaries, but is also seen as essential for Cuba’s economic development.

ISCRAM

Past awardees are Jonas Landgren (Viktoria Institute, Sweden), Jiri Trnka (Linkoping University, Sweden), Manuel Llavador (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Valentin Bertsch (Karlsruhe University, Germany), Thomas Foulquier (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), and the PhD students in crisis informatics at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA).

Joan S. Ash

She has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association, the Medical Library Association, and on the United States National Library of Medicine's Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee.

Joan S. Ash, PhD, MLS, MS, MBA, is Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR.

John Daugman

He held the Johann Bernoulli Chair of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the Toshiba Endowed Chair at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan.

Linda Shapiro

Linda Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.

M. G. Sheftall

He is a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication in the Faculty of Informatics at Shizuoka University, a branch campus of the Japanese national university system.

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems is co-located, and works closely with, the MPI for Informatics (MPII), the computer science departments at the University of Kaiserslautern and the Saarland University, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institutes for Experimental Software Engineering and for Industrial Mathematics and other computing research centers within the Kaiserslautern-Saarbrücken computer science cluster.

Milenko Vlajkov

He was a leading methodologist at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Technological & Social Progress in Novi Sad from 1981-1987 and worked as professor of psychology at the high school of Management and Informatics at the University of Novi Sad from 1989 to 1992.

Mouse Genome Informatics

Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) is a free, online database and bioinformatics resource hosted by The Jackson Laboratory, with funding by The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

MS Swaminathan Research Foundation

MSSRF operates in five major program areas — Coastal Systems Research, Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Ecotechnology and Food security, Gender and development, and Informatics.

National Cyber Security Hall of Fame

#Corey Schou - University Professor of Informatics - Idaho State University

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Lincoln Stein, PhD - Program Director, Informatics and Bio-computing

Paul Sabatier University

The university offers Master’s programs in six areas: Informatics and Systems Modeling; Sciences and techniques of matter and energy; Space sciences; Life and health sciences; Social Sciences and Humanities; Management.

Pavel Poc

Member of ČSSD (Czech Social Democratic Party) (since 1997); Vice-Chairman of the Mariánské Lázně ČSSD local association (since 1998); member of the ČSSD Central Executive Committee (since 2000); member of the ČSSD Bureau (since 2001); guarantor, central informatics commission (2004–2005); guarantor, central ecological commission (2005–2006); chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of the Karlovy Vary Region (2005–2010).

PdfTeX

The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Salvatore Rampone

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sannio - Italy, he possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Computer Science and Informatics.

Sterling Software

Interview by David Allison, 6 December 2002, focuses on ongoing developments at University Computer Corporation, the eventual sale of this firm to Computer Associates, Wyly's formation of Sterling Software, its acquisition of Informatics, the sale of Sterling, and his ideas on the future of information technology.

SWI-Prolog

The name SWI is derived from Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Informatica ("Social Science Informatics"), the former name of the group at the University of Amsterdam, where Wielemaker is employed.

Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics

The Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics (UOI) is an annual informatics competition for secondary school students who live in Ukraine.

Universidade Sénior Contemporânea

Located in Rua Nova do Tronco 504 Porto, Portugal, this institute develops theorical and practical classes as History of Oporto, Psychology, Informatics and Internet, Theater and Poetry, Gymnastics and many others.

University of Melbourne Faculty of Science

The number of courses offered is quite low, as most students are enrolled in the Bachelor of Science and specialise by choosing a major (e.g. Physics, Informatics or Biochemistry).

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Institutes of higher education in the city include Sakhalin State University and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk institute of economics, law and informatics.


see also