fyi. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:53:59 -0500 From: Kathleen Carley <kathleen.carley@cmu.edu> To: kathleen.carley@cmu.edu Subject: New PhD Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society 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