Information Science
Field Description
Information Science is an interdisciplinary program within the Faculty of Computing and Information Science. It brings together faculty, researchers and students who share an interest in studying digital information.
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.
Contact Information
Website: http://infosci.cornell.edu/Email: is-grad@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 254-5347
522 Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Field Manual
Subject and Degrees
Information Science
Concentrations by Subject
Information Science
- cognition
- human computer interaction
- information science
- information systems
- social aspects of information
Faculty
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction
- Research Interests: human-computer interaction and accessibility
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: information technology policy, fairness, accountability and transparency in machine learning, privacy
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: personal relationships and technology, self-disclosure and privacy in social media, group, culture, and language
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: game theory; decision theory; theory of markets
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: natural language processing, artificial intelligence
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: data science, computational social science, critical data studies, economics and information
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction
- Research Interests: developing machine learning techniques for systems that can reason about human activities, interactions, and social networks in everyday environments
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; information systems
- Research Interests: evolution, acquisition and processing of language
Christopher Paul Csikszentmihalyi
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Information for Accountability, Social and Environmental Justice, and activism, Information and Art and Design Practice
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science
- Research Interests: AI, Graphics, Human Interaction, Vision, Human Perception
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: human-computer interaction, information and communication technologies for development, design for underserved populations
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: economic theory; decision theory; finance
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information systems
- Research Interests: Mobile health, networked sensing,
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; information science; information systems
- Research Interests: intersection between programming languages, databases and formal methods
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction
- Research Interests: computer-mediated communication; computer-supported collaborative work; social computing; human-robot and human-agent communication
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Intersection of computer science, economics, and operations—on the application of algorithms, data science, and mechanism design to the study of democracy, markets, and societal systems at large.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Digital knowledge networks
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: integration of artificial intelligence and operations research techniques for combinatorial optimization
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: the design, prototyping, and evaluation of interactive and intelligent environments (architectural robotics) augmenting the healthcare, creativity, learning and literacy, working life, disaster relief, and mass urbanization of an increasingly digital society.
- Campus: Cornell ILR NYC
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Law
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information systems
- Research Interests: pen computing (paper and digital surfaces); information appliances to support reading; empirical evaluation of computer interface; information visualization
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty, decision theory, game theory, fault-tolerant distributed computing, causality, and security
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science; information systems
- Research Interests: artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, data mining, human computation, information retrieval, machine learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: social and political affects of government actions, health and resilience in social networks, low-dimensional representation of social interaction and language
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: social uses and effects of communication technology; mobile technology, communication and culture; mobile social networks; new media and society
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: governance and information technology; information infrastructure in the sciences; politics and policy
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: machine learning, information retrieval
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction
- Research Interests: interaction with automation, interaction design research, human robot interaction, automotive interaction design
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Computer-supported cooperative work, teamwork, emotion, human-robot interaction, design
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; human computer interaction; information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Post-occupancy evaluation, technology, facility management.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science
- Research Interests: intersections of Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous & Wearable Computing, Digital Fabrication, Material Innovation, Fashion Design and Body art
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: social and cultural psychology in context of technology, social identity threat, self-regulation individuals experience and engagement and performance in digital environment
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: information science, algorithms, parallel computing theory
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: Algorithmic aspects of learning and game theory, with applications to electronic commerce, online social systems, and information systems.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Computational social science, algorithmic fairness, causal inference, public health
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: natural language processing; machine learning
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Human computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: surveillance and monitoring, sociology of law, technology and sociotechnical systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: collective action; emergence of norms; networks and cascades; game theory; agent-based modeling
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science
- Research Interests: social media and the internet
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: digital governance, behavior changes in groups and networks shaped by algorithms, pervasive experimentation in society with a special focus on citizen behavioral science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: Machine learning, text mining, digital humanities
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Social media, data mining, human-computer interaction, computational social science, interactive systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; human computer interaction; information science; information systems
- Research Interests: Data Science, HCI, Interface Design and Ubiquitous Computing
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: privacy and ethical and political values in information technology and digital media
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: design and evaluation of information technologies for education, governance, and international development
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; information systems
- Research Interests: Data Science, Machine Learning, Healthcare, Inequality
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; information systems
- Research Interests: computational linguistics, natural language semantics (ellipsis, lexicon induction, parse forest algorithm, statistical parsing)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction
- Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction
- Research Interests: data visualization, crowdsourcing, and social computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: fault-tolerance and security
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: human-computer interaction; sustainable design; critical theory; critical technical practice; consumer culture
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; social aspects of information
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Ethics, Law, and Policy Critical Data Studies Technology and Equity
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: design and analysis of algorithms, algorithmic game theory
- Campus: Cornell Tech (NYC)
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Computer vision, robotics, healthcare, and artificial intelligence
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: computing for development and accessibility HCI, social computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: digital information technologies, changing notions of public trust and democratic governance, and narratives of crisis and future-making in the U.S.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; information systems
- Research Interests: data mining, machine learning, health data science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: cognition; information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Critical Data Studies, Data Science, Natural Language
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: combinatorial optimization, Web search and structure
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science
- Research Interests: human computer interaction
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science; information systems; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Data Science, Human Computer Interaction, Interface Design and Ubiquitous Computing
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information science; social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Data Science, Incentives and Computation as well as Network Science.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction
- Research Interests: virtual collaboration; knowledge management; social networks
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: information systems
- Research Interests: medical imaging, health information systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: human computer interaction; information science
- Research Interests: HCI, UB computing, wearable computing, activity novel sensing and interaction, recognition
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Information Science: social aspects of information
- Research Interests: Science & technology studies; governance and accountability relations; sociology of evaluation; digital media; online reviews, ratings, rankings; information law and policy; ethnography; ethnomethodology