lexical query

[Julia Trubikhina]

>Marina Johnson  wrote:
>
>
>>-"Vychislitel'naia tekhnika"- means hardware
>>"informatika" is a sience about information (optomization of information
>>"potokov"
>>I don't know technical equivalent on English, maybe "information
>>currencies", theory
>>of information)
>>In russia we didn't have a subject "computer sience" the same as in
>>school we didn't
>>have subject "sience" but "history","geography", "physics and so on. The
>>same " computer
>>science" is a matter of many subjects.
>
>
>In the early days we used to call it "programmirovanie" or
>"vychislitel'naja matematika" but then a French term "l'informatique" was
>borrowed.
>
>Alina Israeli

The Department at Moscow State University (MGU) is still called VMK
(Vychislitel'naia matematika i kibernetika) and I think it stood the
closest to what here is meant by computer science.
J. Trubikhina
NYU