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This concentration provides students with the analytical and technical skills they need to design and build functional technical systems.
Some faculty members whose research is related to this concentration include: Tanzeem Choudhury; Dan Cosley; Gilly Leshed; Francois Guimbretiere; Kyle Harms; Wendy Ju; Malte Jung; Cheng Zhang.
Career Paths
- Students interested in the hardware and software aspects of computation and interested in building novel tools and interaction mechanisms that could be used to tackle big societal issues.
- Example career paths: (i) Founding a novel wearable startup (ii) part of the development team for Apple's iWatch and their future devices (iii) Graduate study at MIT Media Lab, Cornell Tech or similar inter-disciplinary programs.
Interactive Technologies Courses
Please reference the Cornell Class Roster for details on the courses below.
A. Building with Hardware
- INFO 4120: Ubiquitous Computing
- INFO 4320: Introduction to Rapid Prototyping and Physical Computing
- CS 4758: Autonomous Mobile Robots
B. Working with Data/Software
- INFO 3300: Visual Data Analytics for the Web
- INFO 4340: App Design and Prototyping
- INFO 4555: Business Intelligence Systems
- CS 3780: Introduction to Machine Learning
- CS 4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics
- CS 5150: Software Engineering
- ORIE 3120: Practical Tools for Operations Research, Machine Learning and Data Science
- ORIE 4740: Statistical Data Mining I
- ORIE 3741: Learning with Big Messy Data
- STSCI 3740: Data Mining and Machine Learning
C. Context/Application Domains
- INFO 4152: Advanced Topics in Computer Game Design*
- INFO 4310: Interactive Information Visualization
- INFO 4410: Re-Designing Robots
- INFO 4430: Teams and Technology
- INFO 4505: Computing and Global Development
- INFO 4940: Special Topics in Information Science - Human-AI Interaction Design Research
- INFO 4940: Special Topics in Information Science - Producing Culture About, With, and Through Tech
*Students must take the INFO listing of INFO/CS 4152. The CS listing will not count towards the IS Minor.