Historical and conceptual overview of informatics as a business, science and engineering field. The early history of the field, scientific and technical developments at the beginning of this century, the fast technological and business developments in the middle of the century, and the developments in business, technology and science in the last decades. The main paradigms of programming (imperative, logical, functional, object-oriented) and the paradigms of application systems technology (mainframes, personal computers, client-server systems, distributed and multi-layer systems). The rise as well as decline of new technologies and companies, their principles and concrete key events. |