UA MIS

Program
Overview
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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.

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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 3
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):
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 UA-MIS is highly rankedAndersen
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competitors and
has the broadest scope - Andersen
Consulting Report
BS Program: 1100 Majors MBA Program: 180 Students
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MS Program: 90 Students PhD Program: 35 Students

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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, 6
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 7
 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 8
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

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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 10
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-
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AI Lab Background
♦ Founded in 1989 by Dr. Hsinchun
Chen (#8 in MIS and #1 in Digital
Library publication, 2005)
♦ 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 12
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, 13
MDS/SOM visualization for financial
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 14
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, 15
pathway modeling and display
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) 16
For more information
♦Eller College:
http://eller.arizona.edu

♦AI Lab: http://ai.arizona.edu

♦Hsinchun Chen:
[email protected]
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