Frank Nielsen: Information sciences seek methods to distill information from data to models.

In a recent study published in a scientific journal named Entropy, Frank Nielsen proposed the term "Information Sciences" to describe the common goal of several modern efforts to turn data into models:

In short, information sciences seek methods to distill information from data to models. Thus information sciences encompass information theory but also include the fields of Probability and Statistics, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Mathematical Programming, just to name a few.

This statement was included in Nielsen's article "An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry", available to download directly from Entropy.