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CHI session -- i-schools

I'm in the CHI 2006 session on Schools of Information, aka "i-schools." The session chair suggests that i-schools focus on information as the central concept vs. computers or computing.


There's no single model for an i-school; some evolved from computer science, some from library science, some are hybrids of several departments. There are about 20 i-schools in North America. They tend to grow up in places where there isn't already an independent School of Computer Science, at least partially as a way to raise the awareness and importance of subfields (like HCI) that tend to get burie






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