Friday, March 23, 2007

Michigan Launches M.S. Specialization in Social Computing

Michigan Launches M.S. Specialization in Social Computing: "Michigan Launches M.S. Specialization in Social Computing

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23 -- Facebook. YouTube. Wikipedia. Flickr. They're the user-created stuff of Web 2.0 -- also known as social computing -- that have changed the way people interact with computers and each other.

Developing a formal understanding of the underlying dynamics at play and the critical technology choices has required a patchwork of academic courses at a select few institutions.

Now the University of Michigan School of Information (SI) offers students the nation's first graduate-degree specialization in social computing through the Master of Science in Information."
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