Computer science Calls herself genericamente computer science to the group of the Sciences of the
Information, being included
in this group: the theory of the
information, the calculation process, the numeric analysis and the theoretical methods of the representation of the knowledge and of modelagem of the problems. Habitually the term computer science is used to refer the process of
automatic treatment of the information specifically by means of electronic machines defined as computers. The study of the information began in the mathematics when names as Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel and Alonzo Church, began to study that types of problems could be resolved, or computed, for human elements that followed a series of simple instructions in an automatic way, independent of the time requested for that. The motivation behind these researches was the progress of the automation during the industrial revolution and of the promise that machines coulded not futuramente to get to solve the same problems in a faster and more effective way. Of the same way that the industries handle raw material to transform it in a final product, the algorithms were drawn so that one day a machine could treat information. He/she was born like this the computer science. Origin of the word computer science In 1957, the cientist of the German computation Karl Steinbuch published a called newspaper Informatik: Automatische Informationsverarbeitung (" Computer science: automatic processing of information "). THE Portuguese word is derived of the French informatique, word servant for Philippe Dreyfus, in 1962, starting from the radical of the verb French informer, for analogy with mathématique, électronique, etc. In Portuguese, there are professionals of the area that also consider that the word computer science is formed by the junction of the words information + automatic, although that conception is historically wrong.