Information Science
graduate fieldoverview
degree offered
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Degree | academic degree
people
headed by
- Huttenlocher, Daniel Peter | John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business
field members
- Abowd, John Maron | Professor
- Arms, William Y. | Professor
- Birnholtz, Jeremy P. | Assistant Professor
- Blume, Lawrence Edward | Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and Professor of Information Science
- Cardie, Claire T | Professor and Charles and Barbara Weiss Director of Information Science
- Constable, Robert Lee | Professor
- Cosley, Daniel R. | Assistant Professor
- Easley, David Alan | Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Sciences
- Edelman, Shimon J. | Professor
- Friedman, Eric J. | Associate Professor
- Fussell, Susan R. | Associate Professor
- Gay, Geraldine K | Kenneth J. Bissett '89 Senior Professorship in Communication
- Gehrke, Johannes E. | Associate Professor
- Gillespie, Tarleton L. | Assistant Professor
- Ginsparg, Paul Henry | Professor of Physics and Infor
- Gomes, Carla P | Associate Professor
- Halpern, Joseph Yehuda | Professor
- Hancock, Jeffrey T. | Associate Professor
- Huttenlocher, Daniel Peter | John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business
- Joachims, Thorsten | Assistant Professor
- Kleinberg, Jon M | Tisch University Professor
- Lee, Lillian Jane | Associate Professor
- Macy, Michael Walton | Goldwin-Smith Professor of Soc
- Pinch, Trevor J | Professor
- Prentice, Rachel E. | Assistant Professor
- Rooth, Mats | Professor & Director, Comp. Li
- Sengers, Phoebe J. | Prof Asst, Information Science
- Tardos, Eva | Jacob Gould Schuman Endowed Chair
- Williamson, David P | Professor
- Yuan, Y. Connie | Assistant Professor
Information Science examines information systems in their social, cultural, economic, historical, legal, and political contexts. Computer science is an important part of the program, but the emphasis is on systems and their use, rather than on the technologies that underlie them.
Information Systems draws from Computer Science and Operations Research; Human Computer Interaction from Communication, Psychology, and Cognitive Studies; Social Studies of Computing from Science & Technology Studies, Law, and Economics, with many others.
The Ph.D. program has been approved by the Education Department in the State of New York.
The Information Science program is home to several large research groups, including the Human-Computer Interaction group, digital libraries research, and the ePrint arXiv.