The Graduate School aims from a new standpoint to deal with various problems of information in the highly organized and informatized modern societies. Informatics in Kyoto University is study of information in natural and the study of artificial systems. Informatics studies the creation, recognition, representation, collection, organization, optimization, transformation, communication, evaluation, and control of information in complex and dynamic systems. Informatics has human, social, cognitive, biological, linguistic, computational, mathematical, and engineering aspects. It includes systems science and communications engineering.
Informatics has close relations with a number of disciplines in the natural and human sciences.
Informatics to human and social areas, mathematical modeling, and information systems are the three pillars of Informatics in Kyoto University. Taking the varied aspects of Infomatics into consideration, the interdepartmental education is encouraged to the students by setting several compulsory credits other than the students' own department. The students of the doctoral courses may enroll to this Graduate School as part time student without resigning their occupation. 2000 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.