[Fis] Newsletter and Season Greetings

[Stanley N Salthe]

FIS'ers -- The domain of information is like that of spilled milk (or wine)
on an empty table.

STAN

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 6:17 AM Michel Petitjean <petitjean.chiral en gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Xueshan, dear All, dear FISers,
>
> This is a really important question: what are the relations between
> information science and computer science?
> At least the word "information" is common two both fields.
> Also, in my opinion, Shannon information should be considered to be
> part of both fields.
> However, more funding seems available via computer science.
>
> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
>
> Michel.
>
> Michel Petitjean
> Université de Paris, BFA, CNRS UMR 8251, INSERM ERL U1133, F-75013 Paris,
> France
> Phone: +331 5727 8434; Fax: +331 5727 8372
> E-mail: petitjean.chiral en gmail.com (preferred),
>         michel.petitjean en univ-paris-diderot.fr
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>
> Le jeu. 26 déc. 2019 à 02:31, Xueshan Yan <yxs en pku.edu.cn> a écrit :
> >
> > Dear Marcin,
> >
> > I agree with your fundraising is an urgent issue in IS4SI, but I only
> give a few lines on your point 5. You have touched the tenderest area
> around us: Is computer science an information science? If is, what is the
> relationship between it and the information science that we are pursuing
> here? If not, why?
> >
> > Higher education of information in Japan has some good cases for us.
> Tohoku University, Tokyo University, etc. have treated technical
> information and human information separately successfully. In a sense, they
> are ahead of us.
> >
> > Another question pressing us enough headache is: Is genetics an
> information science? Same: Is neuroscience an information science? The
> fundamental concept in both of these two disciplines is Information.
> Another subject in which information becomes more and more basic in biology
> is endocrinology.
> >
> > Understanding of information science as a much broader domain of study
> just is the pursuit of IS4SI, we only have the form but without the content
> of it now, what could we propagate to related colleagues? So, not only a
> big task is it, but a despairing task is it too. Beyond computer science,
> biology, physics, and chemistry, etc. are the basic characteristics of FIS,
> but this burden has been more and more beyond our ability and is becoming
> its characteristics.
> >
> > Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all colleagues!
> >
> > Xueshan
> >
>
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