The term informatics has diverse origins, with different sources attributing its creation to various individuals and languages. The term originally comes from the Latin word 'informatio,' which means 'act of informing' and evolved to mean 'knowledge communicated concerning a particular topic' [2]. In the 16th century, the modern usage of informatics was established through the restoration of Latin spelling. Additionally, the term was coined in Germany in 1956 by Karl Steinbuch and Helmut Gröttrup when they developed the Informatik-Anlage for data processing in commercial applications [1]. The term was also independently coined in French as 'Informatique' by Phillipe Dreyfus in March 1962, and it was further solidified in English as a term modeled on a Russian lexical item [4]. Moreover, the founder of one of the first software companies, Walter Bauer, introduced the term 'informatics' in a 1996 paper to suggest 'the science of information handling' [6].

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