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The Information School (abbreviated as iSchool) is the information school of the University of Washington, a public research university in Seattle, Washington.Formerly the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences since 1984, the Information School changed its focus and name in 2001.
The first iSchools Caucus was formed in 1988 by Syracuse, [1] Pittsburgh, and Drexel and was called the Gang of Three (sometimes gang of four with Rutgers). [2] [3] Syracuse renamed the School of Library Science as the School of Information Studies in 1974, and is considered as the first “iSchool” in history.
In 2013 U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 15th nationally among Library and Information Science schools. [3] SOIS ranks 4th internationally and 2nd in the US/Canada in department contributions to library and information science (LIS) literature (2007 - 2012) as reported in a recent study in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology by Walters & Wilder.
He is the Dean of the University of Washington Information School. [1] Dey is formerly the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie at the intersection of human–computer interaction and ubiquitous computing, focusing on how to make novel technologies more usable and useful ...
The legislature passed articles incorporating the university, and establishing its Board of Regents in 1862. The school initially struggled, closing three times: in 1863 for low enrollment, and again in 1867 and 1876 for shortage of funds. Washington awarded its first graduate Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt in 1876, with a Bachelor of Science ...
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (commonly abbreviated as the Allen School) is a school within the College of Engineering of the University of Washington in Seattle. The school offers undergraduate and graduate level courses, for their BS, MS, and PhD degree programs. Known for most of its life as the Computer Science ...
Ryan Calo is an American legal scholar, internationally recognized within the fields of emerging technology, especially privacy, robotics, and artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab and the Center for an Informed Public which focuses on combating misinformation.
PIL began in 2008 as a partnership with the University of Washington Information School with Alison J. Head and Michael Eisenberg, dean emeritus and professor at the school, as co-directors. [4] Both Head and Eisenberg have extensive experience conducting and publishing research on information literacy and the information-seeking behavior of ...