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The Origins of Informatics
1994
JAMIA Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
This article summarizes the origins of informatics, which is based on the science, engineering, and technology of computer hardware, software, and communications. In just four decades, from the 1950s to the 199Os, computer technology has progressed from slow, firstgeneration vacuum tubes, through the invention of the transistor and its incorporation into microprocessor chips, and ultimately, to fast, fourth-generation very-large-scale-integrated silicon chips. Programming has undergone a
doi:10.1136/jamia.1994.95236152
pmid:7719803
pmcid:PMC116189
fatcat:tb4zyqkskncu5opdutblapneje