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Education and Researchat UC BerkeleysSchool
of Information

Prof. Marti HearstPresentation to the
InternationalConference on Informatics Education
and Research for Knowledge-Circulation
SocietyJanuary 17, 2008
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A Brief History of the iSchool
Name changed to iSchool
2007
2005
1997

• Anno Saxenian named Dean
• 9th Masters class graduates
• First doctoral graduates hired

1995
First class admitted
1994
Hal Varian named Founding Dean
SIMS created by recommendation of Information
Planning Group
School of Library InformationStudies
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Our Mission

• We are developing scholars, entrepreneurs, and
  public leaders who can transform information into
  knowledge and understanding.

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Program Overview

• Small interdisciplinary faculty
• 12 ladder faculty
• Joint appointments with Law, Computer Science,
  Business, Economics, City Planning
• Research curriculum combine leading edge social
  science and technology capabilities
• High caliber program
• 40 masters students admitted annually to 2-year
  program many professionally experienced
• 2-5 PhD students admitted each year

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Competitive position

• Information schools are becoming more common and
  more visible
• Over a dozen leading US universities and
  colleges Michigan, Washington, Syracuse, CMU,
  Penn State
• Several important programs overseas, e.g.,
  Singapore
• UC Berkeleys iSchool leads the field
• Distinguished faculty conducting leading-edge
  research
• Our program and curriculum already a model for
  others
• Advantage of size Team-based projects, small
  classes
• Important synergies with rest of the Berkeley
  campus
• Close proximity to Silicon Valley technology
  community
• Outstanding students from varied backgrounds

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Intellectual Landscape
SCHOLARSHIP
Information economics and policy
Information design and architecture
Computer Science
Law and Policy
iSchool
Human-computer interaction
Information assurance
Sociology of information
Management Science
Social Sciences
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
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Education
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Masters Program

• A 2 year, full-time program
• Many students work 10 hours/week
• Students take about 15 courses
• About 15 of these are outside the school
• Five required core courses
• The final project is very important
• Goal integrate concepts learned from all of
  their classes.
• Schedule
• Propose a topic in Fall of second semester
• Spend much of the Spring semester completing it

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Masters Curriculum

• Five required Core Courses
• Information Organization and Retrieval
• Social Organizational Issues of Information
• Computer Science and Distributed Systems
• Information Law and Policy
• Project Management or Systems Analysis

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Masters Curriculum Electives

• Human-Computer Interaction Track
• User Interface Design Development
• Needs and Usability Assessment
• Information Visualization and Presentation
• Information Aesthetics/Graphic Design
• Tangible User Interfaces
• Technologies for Creativity Learning
• Qualitative Research Methods

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Masters Curriculum Electives

• Information Architecture Retrieval
• Database Design
• Principles of Information Retrieval
• Web Services
• Applied Natural Language Processing
• Organization of Information in Collections
• The Quality of Information
• The History of Information
• Search Engines Technology, Society, Business

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Masters Curriculum Electives

• Information and Service Design
• (Document Engineering / ePublishing)
• Document Engineering
• Web Services
• Web Architecture
• Web-based Publishing
• XML Foundations
• Mixing Remixing Information
• ISD Clinic
• Develop final projects into long-running and
  substantial systems.

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Masters Curriculum Electives

• Information Economics Policy
• Information Policy
• Economics of Information
• Economics of Network Security Privacy
• Intellectual Property Law for the Information
  Industry
• Privacy, Security, Cryptography
• Cyberlaw

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Masters Curriculum Electives

• Social and Organizational Aspects of IT
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Information in Society
• Studies in Regional Growth Development
• Quantitative Research Methods
• The Social Life of Visual Media
• Virtual Communities Social Media

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Masters Curriculum Electives

• Management / Business / Services Science
• Strategic Computing Communications Technology
• Services Science Seminar
• Professional Skills Workshop
• Courses from the Business School
• Marketing for High-Tech Entrepreneurs
• Innovation in Services and Business Models
• Energy, Sustainability and Business Innovation
• Various Management courses

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Final projects contribute to campus
Project Campus Client
UCB IT System Map Central Computing
Event Calendar Network Public Affairs
IARS Bears Intercollegiate Athletics
Course Approval System Academic Senate, IST
BriefBank Law School
Telebears Redesign Registrars Office, IST
MaNIS Interface Project Biology Dept/ NSF

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Masters student placements

• Typical functions
• Human computer interaction, user interface design
  
• Product or project management
• Web services, web content, or applications
  engineer
• Information architecture, database design
  management
• Library and information services
• Representative employers
• Google, eBay, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Oracle, HP
• UC, Kaiser (Hospital), US Government, CA Digital
  Library
• Start-up Businesses

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Research
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Information Technologies for the Developing World
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Security and Human-Computer Interaction
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Network Telecom Economics
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Search User Interfaces
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Social Media

• Trust and Computer-Mediated Communication
• The Social Life of Photo Usage
• Presentation of Self in Social Networks
• Large-Scale Study of Relationship Formation

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PhD Program

• Graduates of the program have taken diverse jobs
• Professor of Information Technology Public
  Policy at the Heinz School at CMU
• Researcher at Intel Research
• Researcher at PARC
• Postdoctoral researcher at Harvard
• Postdoctoral researcher at Tel-Aviv U.

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Summary

• UC Berkeleys School of Information
• Providing masters students with an
  interdisciplinary professional degree.
• Studying the intersection of society,
  information, and technology.