PHILOSOPHY

This use-inspired basic research degree is designed to produce independent scholars, well-prepared educators and cutting-edge researchers poised to excel in their work within interdisciplinary environments and industries.

The degree highlights two of the most unique characteristics of the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences - the breadth of its program offerings and its scholarly focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of cyberinfrastructure (CI) as applied to specific problems across multiple domains. It is a blend of computing's intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary knowledge areas.

Intra-disciplinary knowledge areas:

• Interaction - how technology facilitates the interaction between humans and computational entities.
• Infrastructure - the integration of hardware, software and communication
• Informatics - the techniques applied to the understanding of data-driven systems.

Inter-disciplinary areas - the following is a list of some of the domains a student could apply his/her research to:

• Astro-informatics
• Bio-medical informatics
• Environmental informatics
• Computational biology
• Computational science
• Services Sciences
• Electronic commerce