WHAT IS INFORMATICS?
Informatics is the study and application of systems and technology for the collection, storage, processing, organization, classification, distribution and use of information. Informatics examines how information is produced, transmitted and used, the nature of information in various forms and its relationship with ideas. For this purpose, it is essential to obtain, classify, store, retrieve, recall and direct information to the relevant units.

Informatics finds its place in library studies in terms of the organization and classification of information, and in the field of computer and communication technologies in terms of the communication of information. How information is used in organizations, what its economic value is, how it is used in policy making, etc. is within the scope of informatics.

Informatics deals with the production of information systems for these purposes. It aims to produce complete, complete and useful information systems by first determining what the information system to be produced is, how it will be designed and then what will be used to realize this design. The fact that the use of computers has actively and intensively entered all areas of life has made it compulsory to be familiar with computer sciences and remote communication in computer environment in all branches, regardless of science and social sciences.

ESTABLISHMENT OF INFORMATICS DEPARTMENT

In the decision 97.19.1429 numbered 97.19.1429 taken by the Executive Board of the Presidency of the Council of Higher Education in its session dated 17.6.1997 and numbered 19:

The issue of opening Informatics Departments within universities and high technology institutes was discussed.

a. Establishing a Department of Informatics under the rectors of universities and institutes of advanced technology in order to make the necessary organizations and arrangements for the teaching of basic information technology subjects to all students of universities and institutes of advanced technology and to coordinate and/or carry out actual courses, in accordance with Article 7/d-2 of Law No. 2547 amended by Law No. 2880,

b. In accordance with Article 7/e of the Law No. 2547 amended by Law No. 2880, this department will coordinate and/or carry out the following courses as compulsory and elective courses,

c. Appointment of the Middle East Technical University Informatics Institute to assist in the orientation trainings of the faculty members who will work in the said departments,

d. It has been approved for universities and institutes of high technology to communicate with the Middle East Technical University Informatics Institute in order to train instructors for the Informatics Department, and for research assistants to be assigned to the said Institute without the need for a re-examination in accordance with paragraph g of Article 2 of the Graduate Education and Training Regulation in order to conduct graduate education in this field.