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Subject: TR: Ph.D. Program Announcement
From: francois bousquet (bousquet@cirad.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 05:41:12 CET
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De : Kathleen Carley
Envoyé : mardi 25 novembre 2003 03:32
À : SIMSOC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Objet : Ph.D. Program Announcement
PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science announces
A NEW Ph.D. PROGRAM IN COMPUTATION, ORGANIZATIONS, AND SOCIETY
Deadline for applications: January 5, 2004
The Ph.D. program in Computation, Organizations, and Society (COS)
prepares students to be tomorrow's leaders in constructing and
evaluating technology that is particularly responsible to societal,
business, policy, and regulatory settings. The Ph.D. program in COS
trains students to be leading scientists in this heavily sought area
by providing students with in-depth training not just in computation
but also in fundamental approaches and techniques for including
networks of people, organizations and/or policies as additional
constraints during development. Students engage in research aimed
at developing emerging technology with provable guarantees of the
technology's appropriateness for specific social, organizational,
and/or legal settings. The Ph.D. program in COS builds on a
multi-disciplinary team of world-class faculty. It exposes students
to traditional tenets of computer and social science weaved with
interdisciplinary coursework, hands-on applications and cutting-edge
research. Research examples include privacy technology, dynamic
social networks and e-business.
MOTIVATION
The past decade has seen a tremendous increase in both the breadth
and the complexity of computational systems society has come to rely
on. This increase in turn is giving rise to a number of new and
challenging societal, management and policy issues, which themselves
often call for new technological innovations. Examples include
privacy rights management, data privacy, electronic market
mechanisms and automated negotiation, real time estimation of social
networks, dynamic network modeling, scalable visualization of complex
systems, online dispute resolution, etc. Attacking these new problems
requires profound understanding of computation and the interplay between
the managerial, personal and policy networks in which technology
operates. Unfortunately, current degree programs in traditional
disciplines (e.g. computer science, sociology, economics, policy or
management) fail to provide the kind of multi-disciplinary
curriculum needed to train tomorrow's leaders in this emerging area.
Today's demand for integrated expertise far exceeds supply. As demand
for this new breed of researchers continues to grow, it becomes
increasingly important to offer a PhD program that fills the void.
We are pleased to announce the first such program.
WHO SHOULD APPLY
Students in the Ph.D. program in Computation, Organization and
Society (COS) are expected to come from industry, government or
directly from undergraduate programs. Students must have an
undergraduate and/or master level degree in any of the following
areas: mathematics, computer science, computational organization
theory, physics, information science/technology, biology,
mathematics, or a mathematical/computational social science,
government or policy program. In other words, students are expected
to already have had a solid exposure to computation and math/science
and to some area of the social or managerial sciences. Students
apply to the program because of their desire to do research at the
confluence of computer science, management, social science, law
and/or policy. Students are expected to generally be pioneers who
are unsatisfied with traditional degree programs and have strong
interest in interdisciplinary research incorporating vigorous computational
approaches.
More information available at: cos.cs.cmu.edu
Ph.D. Program in Computation, Organizations and Society
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412)268-1593
cos-phd@cs.cmu.edu, cos.cs.cmu.edu
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