CU Boulder CMCI Information Science

on and innovation for many forms of enterprise—commercial, societal, individual, and corporate. Digital traces create new opportunities—some of which are problematic and must also be clearly understood—for understanding and leveraging human behavior in new ways. Companies can anticipate how clients will react to new products. Humanitarians responding to disasters can detect where people need the most help. For-profit and not-for-profit entrepreneurs can build software applications and quickly evaluate how their users interact with it. Large institutions can uncover how they distribute resources. Large bodies of musical scores and historical texts and can be made digitally available to world-wide audience that can search and explore them anew using engaging data visualization techniques. In terms of training a future workforce, we know that our undergraduates will face demands that require that they be able to versatilely conduct many forms of data collection, management and analysis. We work to a vision of the future that requires that everyone be data analysts. In turn this requires empirical, computational, legal and critical understanding of our relationship with all things digital, including the digital traces of interactions with software, hardware and algorithms. Students will need to know how to design and build effective and engaging technology, and to deploy, measure and monitor its impact. Analytics and design will therefore come together into an integrated cycle of development. We welcome your interest and participation as we grow and develop our new program. The Department will begin offering courses for BS and PhD programs in Information Science in Fall 2016. An MS program is currently slated to launch in Fall 2018.