>My favorite name is the made-up one that ws invented in Europe >but never caught on, "Informatics". Well, it was caught firmly in Soviet Union, and it is still in wide use in Russia - here we have high school course "Informatics" and university UG courses with the same name - for such departments, for example, as Biological (and others). > It's just as arbitrary, but >at least it focus on information, which is, indeed, a lot of what >we do. I agree that that name properly reflects the essense of the matter, but unfortunately the substance of those courses does not provide a strong link to its name. >> Well, there is Electrical Engineering, but no Electricity Science. > >Well, there's Electricity & Magnetism, which is (generally) >taught (in the US, anyway) as part of physics, or E.E., or both. Yes, and if Informatics & Operations Research will be taught as part of Applied Mathematics, or E.E., or both, then there will be much less grounds for complaining. Alexander Kopilovitch [log in to unmask] Saint-Petersburg Russia