My Brief Bombast on Informatics
The dissolution of boundaries between seemingly orthogonal lines of research into unified theories of natural phenomena is a defining feature of the history of science. Scientific research in the 21st century is, of course, no exception to the rule. The computational revolution has acted as a catalyst, accelerating this process towards the convergence of all areas of scientific endeavor upon a unifying concept of information. Computational methods have produced massive amounts of data -- information -- ranging across all of the natural and behavioral sciences---biology, chemistry, physics, cognitive science, etc. Academic centers and commercial enterprise alike are gradually realizing that science in the 21st century will be defined by synergistic interaction of expertise concerning the nature, structure, representation and processing of information in natural and artificial systems. Where do my own research interests figure into this grand endeavor? Well, you can read about my academic & research interests and try to discern that for yourself :)
The School of Informatics's "vision" is a brief but very good explanation of what informatics is and what its aims are.