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Portuguese to English: Wiki (PT) article on computing General field: Tech/Engineering
Source text - Portuguese Informática é um termo usado para descrever o conjunto das ciências relacionadas ao armazenamento, transmissão e processamento de informações em meios digitais, estando incluídas neste grupo: a ciência da computação, a teoria da informação, o processo de cálculo, a análise numérica e os métodos teóricos da representação dos conhecimentos e da modelagem dos problemas. Mas também a informática pode ser entendida como ciência que estuda o conjunto de informações e conhecimentos por meios digitais.
O termo informática, sendo dicionarizado com o mesmo significado amplo nos dois lados do Atlântico, assume em Portugal o sentido sinônimo da ciência da computação, enquanto que no Brasil é habitualmente usado para rever especificamente o processo de tratamento da informação por meio de máquinas eletrônicas definidas como computadores.
O estudo da informação começou na matemática quando nomes como Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel e Alonzo Church, começaram a estudar que tipos de problemas poderiam ser resolvidos, ou computados, por elementos humanos que seguissem uma série de instruções simples, independente do tempo requerido para isso. A motivação por trás destas pesquisas era o avanço durante a revolução industrial e da promessa que máquinas poderiam futuramente conseguir resolver os mesmos problemas de forma mais rápida e mais eficaz. Do mesmo jeito que as indústrias manuseiam matéria-prima para transformá-la em um produto final, os algoritmos foram desenhados para que um dia uma máquina pudesse tratar informações.
Translation - English Computing is a term used to describe the group of sciences related to the storage, transmission, and process of information in digital form. Sub-categories include: Computer Science, Information Theory, Calculative Process, Numerical Analysis, and the theoretical methods of representation for understanding and modeling of problems. Computing can also be understood as a science which studies the grouping of information and knowledge digitally.
The term "computing", being defined in the dictionary with the same broad meaning on both sides of the Atlantic, assumes in Portugal a sense which is synonymous with computer science while in Brazil, it is habitually used to refer specifically to the process and treatment of information by means of electronic machines defined as computers.
The study of computing started in mathematics when names such as Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel and Alonzo Church, started to study the types of problems which could be solved, or computed, by human elements which would follow a series of simple instructions, independent of time requirements. The motivations behind this research were the advances during the industrial revolution and the promise that machines would one day be able to solve the same problems faster and more effectively. The same way that industries manipulate raw material to transform it into a final product, algorithms were designed so that one day a machine would be able to process information.
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