Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
| Established | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Dean | Andrew Sears |
| Location | University Park, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Campus | University Park |
| Website | ist.psu.edu |
The College of Information Sciences and Technology, also known as IST, was opened in 1999.
The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is an interdisciplinary college that integrates a variety of perspectives from computer and information sciences, psychology, social science, economics and public policy, to study the interactions between information, technology, and people, to inform the design of innovative information technologies, and their societal impact. Faulty research focuses on artificial intelligence (including knowledge representation, machine learning, computer vision), informatics (including social informatics, health informatics, security informatics, community informatics), big data (search, analytics, predictive modeling), human-computer interaction, security and privacy, cognitive science, and socio-technical systems.
The college has about 30 tenured and tenure track faculty and almost the same number of fixed term (non-tenured) teaching and research faculty. Some faculty of note include:
The College of Information Sciences and Technology was created in 1997. The Dean of the Graduate School at that time, Rodney Erickson, was appointed by then Penn State President Graham Spanier to lead a strategic planning group that produced plans for the school of information sciences and technology which admitted the first students into the IST program for the fall 1999 semester. The first Dean was James Thomas.
In January 2006, Penn State Board of Trustee decided to rename the School of Information to College of Information Sciences and Technology – a designation that signified IST’s importance within both the Penn State system and the Commonwealth.
The Information Sciences and Technology Building is located on the west campus of the Pennsylvania State University’s University Park campus. The IST building was formally opened in 2004 and became the home to the College of Information Sciences and Technology and the Computer Science and Engineering department.
The 199,000-square-foot (18,500 m2) building was designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects in New York, New York and Perfido Weiskopf Architects in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The architecture was inspired by the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The construction of the building is 199,000-square-foot (18,500 m2) and cost $58.8 million to complete. The building serves as a pedestrian bridge which permits pedestrian and bicycle traffic over Atherton Road.
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