Information Engineering

• Terminology: informatics? information science and engineering?
• European Union
  • Research needed for electronic publishing, information dissemination, information retrieval
  • IR research - design: identify and analyze info. seeking behavior as basis, develop design techniques for IR environments (attractive, easy to use), improved user interface methodologies that extend to multimedia and VR
  • IR research - implementation: advanced methods for browsing and retrieving, integration with common user environments for seamless task work, add value through visualization and presentation tools, allow user to build indexes and visualizations
  • IR research - management: methods for determining usability for various environments and tasks, develop intelligent systems for: filtering, mining, synthesizing, summarizing to handle info. overload and redundancy
  • IVth Framework Program, 1994-98, Information Engineering
• NSF Task Force, Nov. 1993, M. Mulder, G. Strong, ...
  • Representatives from industry and academia, for needs and curriculum
  • Many problems as well as opportunities
  • Information requirements
    • problem solving, design (including work/task, HCI issues)
    • life cycles of systems, usability
    • objects: paradigm, programming, DBs
    • architectures: information, network, system, application
    • data/information bases and their management and evaluation
    • HCI
    • CS : data structures, sofware design and methods, analysis and design of algorithms, computer organization and architecture, operating systems and systems work, programming languages, theory of computation
  • General requirements
    • Math
    • Lab sciences
    • Field science experiences in human behavior
    • Communications, group teams, project management
  • Program components
    • Core knowledge
    • Practicum
    • Organizations, management and humanistic issues
    • Systems
    • Domain knowledge (e.g., medicine, education)