MIS program overview

UA MIS Program Overview : 

1 MIS UA MIS Program Overview

Vision for UA-MIS : 

2 Vision for UA-MIS To establish leadership in information technology education, research and outreach that accentuate innovation, hands-on experience and strategic values of information management, intelligence and technology. MIS

Historical Overview : 

3 Historical Overview BS, MS and Ph.D. programs were first offered in 1974. The department was established in 1977. 30th year celebration in 2004 on November 3-6, 2004 20 faculty members, 45 Ph.D., 50 MS, 120 MBA, 600 BS students Unique values of our program Successful innovations and technology transfer Hands-on learning about synergies among development, application and management Applied and relevant MIS

MIS Recognition : 

4 MIS Recognition US News & World Report: ranked among top 5 programs for more than 15 consecutive years External Peer Review (1998): “a jewel” Decision Line rankings (1998, 1999): Dept. research productivity: #1 by far Dr. Nunamaker: #2 Comm. of AIS (2005): Institution publication productivity: #4 Dr. Nunamaker #6; Dr. Chen #8 MIS

UA-MIS is highly ranked versus competitors and has the broadest scope - Andersen Consulting Report : 

5 UA-MIS is highly ranked versus competitors and has the broadest scope - Andersen Consulting Report BS Program: 1100 Majors Ranking Scope High Low Narrow Broad Ranking Scope Narrow Broad High Low Ranking Scope High Low Narrow Broad PhD Program: 35 Students MBA Program: 180 Students MS Program: 90 Students Andersen Consulting 1999 Market Analysis High Low Ranking Scope Narrow Broad Minnesota MIT Carnegie Mellon Texas NYU Michigan ASU UofA UofA MIT Texas Michigan Carnegie Mellon Minnesota U Penn ASU NYU Michigan Carnegie Mellon UofA Berkeley ASU Illinois UofA MIT Carnegie Mellon Minnesota Texas Stanford NYU Irvine MIS

Top Five UA MIS Programs : 

6 Top Five UA MIS Programs MIT: economics, social, IT consulting CMU: economics, MS/OR, social UT Austin: economics, MS/OR Arizona: system, technical Minnesota: social, behavioral MIS

Faculty : 

7 Faculty 20 faculty members Total Research Funding: $50+ million Pioneers and leaders in Collaboration technology and science Knowledge management and artificial intelligence Large scale data management and mining Global eCommerce and Internet security issues Economics and technology management issues Featured in Fortune, Business Week, Forbes, Sciences and New York Times articles MIS

UA-MIS Board of Advisors : 

8 UA-MIS Board of Advisors Provide guidance and support Established in summer 1998 Inkind, scholarship, infrastructure and fund donations exceeding $10 million Members include: AOL, Ameristar Casinos, Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen, Cap Gemini, Cargill, Commerce One, Compaq, EMC2, Farmers Insurance, HP, Harvard Group, Honeywell, IBM, IFS, Intel, Oracle, PWC, Raytheon, RCM Technologies, SoftQuad, Ultralife Batteries MIS

Partnership Outcomes : 

9 Partnership Outcomes Mark and Susan Hoffman E-Commerce Lab Harvard Group and Honeywell Scholarships E-business Executive education program Specialized co-op program Student and faculty projects MIS

Major UA/MIS Research Centers : 

10 Major UA/MIS Research Centers Center for the Management of Information (CMI): Collaborative computing and group systems research Artificial Intelligence Lab: Knowledge management and web computing research Hoffman E-Commerce Lab: E-Commerce and Internet computing research, education, outreach Advanced Database Research Group: Data modeling and management research MIS

UA/MIS Research Focuses: : 

11 UA/MIS Research Focuses: Technical/system: artificial intelligence, web computing, GDSS, databases Management sciences/OR: workflow, supply-chain, project management Information economics: auctioning, modeling Social/behavioral/cognitive: social impacts, computer-mediated communication, human-computer interactions (HCI) MIS

AI Lab Background : 

12 AI Lab Background Founded in 1989 Excellence in Digital Library, Web Computing, Biomedical Informatics, and Security and Intelligence Informatics Funding, $20M: federal (NSF, NIH, NIJ, DARPA, etc.) and industries (SAP, HP, IBM, etc.) 40+ researchers: 12 full-time researchers/staff, 18 Ph.D. students, 10 MS/BS students (and 10+ affiliated faculty) Research infrastructure: NT/UNIX/Linux workstations, servers, supercomputers (SGI); Java/C/C++, DBMS (Oracle/MS SQL), web protocols MIS

AI Lab Projects: Web Intelligence and Mining : 

13 AI Lab Projects: Web Intelligence and Mining Meta searching, multi-lingual support, post-retrieval analysis, knowledge map visualization Scientific portals: NanoPort (for Nano Technology), DGPort (for digital government) Intelligence portals: (English/Chinese) business intelligence and medical intelligence, Spanish/Arabic CMC visualization by Glyphs, MDS/SOM visualization for financial management and Internet survey, financial data/text mining, GetSmart e-learning concept map, recommender systems MIS

AI Lab Projects: Intelligence and Security : 

14 AI Lab Projects: Intelligence and Security Digital government application, information sharing and analysis, social network analysis, data/text mining COPLINK Connect (inter-operability), Detect (relationship identification), Agent (alerting) Criminal and terrorism social network analysis (SNA): centrality, block-modeling, clustering Criminal and terrorism data/text mining: criminal element association mining and clustering (time, place, objects) Deception detection: criminal identities, missing information, fuzzy string comparison MIS

AI Lab Projects: Biomedical Informatics : 

15 AI Lab Projects: Biomedical Informatics Medical data and text mining, gene pathway analysis, medical ontologies, GeneArray analysis Medical portals: HelpfulMed and MedTextus, medical thesaurus (48M terms) and medical knowledge map (MED and Cancer); BioPortal for disease informatics Gene pathway text mining, computational linguistics GeneArray data mining, clustering Medical knowledge visualization, pathway modeling and display Infectious disease and bioagent information sharing, analysis, and visualization MIS

Research Opportunities : 

16 Research Opportunities Ph.D. Program: excellent GPA (top 5 in class), strong GRE/GMAT (top 5%), strong research record, strong faculty personal recommendation ($18,000 annual financial support, 5 years)  become professor ($100,000 + 2/9) MS Program: good GPA and GRE/GMAT (top 10%), good recommendation (good chance for financial support after first semester, $14,000 per year, 2 years)  become IT professional ($60,000) Need good to excellent English communication skills (speaking and writing) Joint faculty research, sabbatical exchange, visitor program MIS

For more information : 

17 For more information Eller College: http://eller.arizona.edu AI Lab: http://ai.arizona.edu Hsinchun Chen: hchen@eller.arizona.edu MIS