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The video of Jeff Hancock's TED Winnipeg talk "3 Types of (digital) Lies" is now featured on TED.com.

The Department of Information Science at Cornell hosts talks and events frequently throughout the academic year.

The Department of Information Science at Cornell hosts talks and events frequently throughout the academic year. Please check back often for updates.

The annual BOOM Showcase is scheduled for April 3, 2013. Please visit the BOOM blog for updates. Follow these links for details on the Colloquium Series and Breakfast Series.

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News

Congratulations to Information Science Senior Vera Khovanskaya who received the Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!

Faculty Awards

The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of new members last week, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Congratulations to Eva Tardos of Computing and Information Science for her election!

News

Haym Hirsh, current chair of Rutgers University's computer science department, has been appointed the new dean of Computing and Information Science.

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Graduation for the Information Science department will be Saturday, May 25, 2013. 

 

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Graduation for the Information Science department will be Saturday, May 25, 2013. 

 

News

Congratulations to Information Science Senior Vera Khovanskaya who received the Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!

Faculty Awards

The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of new members last week, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Congratulations to Eva Tardos of Computing and Information Science for her election!

News

Haym Hirsh, current chair of Rutgers University's computer science department, has been appointed the new dean of Computing and Information Science.

News

Our Information Science department will be well represented at CHI this year in Paris, with faculty, post docs and grad students presenting papers, talks and workshops.

Faculty

Congratulations to Nick Chen and Professor Francois Guimbretiere! Their paper was included in Computing Reviews Best of 2012 collection.

Research Spotlight

Michael Kaplan, an Information Science student, built a prototype called Public Spheres that allows participants to engage in online deliberation and discussion.

Faculty

Information Science Professor Tanzeem Choudhury was featured on NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists series.

Faculty

Information Science Professor Jeff Hancock's Facebook study on self-esteem was featured in several media outlets including the LA Times.

Student Spotlight

Victoria Schwanda Sosik is a PhD candidate in Information Science whose research focus is

Academics

Please see the information below for Pre-enrollment information for Information Science students.

Student Spotlight

Mengxi Chi is an MPS student in Information Science whose interests are in Human-Computer Interaction Design and Web Development.

Faculty

InfoSci major Ian Perry interviews Professor Tarleton Gillespie for his blog.

News

Cornell will offer its first MOOC, massive open online course, Six Pretty Good Books, taught by four professors representing several social science fields, including Information Science professors Michael Macy and Jeff Hancock.

Ph.D.

Leo Kang's interactive exhibit "I Want To" is on display at Cornell's Olive Tjaden Hall this week.

News

Students arrived for their first day of classes Monday, January 21, 2013, at the temporary headquarters of Cornell NYC Tech Campus donated by Google.

Alumni News

Austin Lin (InfoSci ugrad alum, class of '09) is currently the co-founder of Aggregift, an NYC based startup. His responsibilities include product design, software engineering, and building a great engineering team. Prior to Aggregift, Austin worked at Microsoft and other startups.

Alumni News

Barrett Amos is currently a program manager at Microsoft. His responsibility is to find out customer needs and assist with building future products to meet these needs.

Alumni News

Abena Oteng-Agipong is an alum of both the Information Science undergraduate and MPS programs. She is currently working as a System Analyst I at Dynamics Research Corporation, a firm that works with the FDIC.

Staff

The contributions from faculty and staff in both Computer Science and Information Science allowed us to donate gifts for fifteen children this holiday season.

Student Spotlight

Taylor Udell is an InfoSci undergrad. Her concentrations are Human-Centered Systems and Information Systems and she does research with the Behavioral Analysis of Beginning Years lab.

Faculty

Information Science professor Gilly Leshed contributed a blog post to the Wikimedia Foundation blog about the Online Communities course she teaches at Corne

Student Spotlight

Matthew Green is an InfoSci MPS student from Kingston, Jamaica who completed a degree in hotel administration at Cornell before starting his graduate work.

Student Spotlight

Zach Porges is an InfoSci undergrad student who expects to graduate from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2014. He is also the President of Cornell's Information Science Student Association.

Student Spotlight

Mash Rabbi is a PhD candidate in the Information Science department at Cornell. His research focuses on technologies for mobile health and well-being.

Faculty Awards

Congrats to Arpita Ghosh who was chosen to receive a Yahoo! Faculty and Research Engagement Program (FREP) Award.

Student Spotlight

Carolyn Chu is an Information Science undergraduate alumni who completed the ISST program in the spring of 2012.

Faculty

The video of Jeff Hancock's TED Winnipeg talk "3 Types of (digital) Lies" is now featured on TED.com.

Staff

CIS sponsored a team in the Oct.

Student Spotlight

Scott Cambo is a nontraditional undergrad Information Science major who is working with a research team on dynamic analysis of coauthorship networks in scientific publications.

Ph.D.

Our PhD student Leo Kang had a project featured in this year's Maker Faire in New York, on September 29 and 30, 2012.

Faculty Awards
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Claire Cardie received an Outstanding Alumni in Education award from UMass, Amherst CS department forher key role in integrating computing and information science into education, research, and sch

Ph.D.

Congratulations to our PhD student Nick Knouf who received an ACLS Dissertation Comple

Student Spotlight

Jaeyeon Kihm is a PhD candidate in Information Science at Cornell. He is working on research in human computer interaction (HCI).