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This concentration provides students with the analytical and technical skills they need to design and build functional technical systems.
The core course related to this concentration is INFO 1300: Introductory Design and Programming for the Web. CS 2110: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures is a required course for this concentration.
Some faculty members whose research is related to this concentration include: Chris Csíkszentmihályi, Gilly Leshed, Francois Guimbretiere, Kyle Harms, Wendy Ju, Malte Jung, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Aditya Vashistha, Qian Yang, and Cheng Zhang.
Career Paths
- Students interested in the hardware and software aspects of computation and interested in building novel tools and interaction mechanisms that could be used to tackle big societal issues.
- Example career paths: (i) Founding a novel wearable startup (ii) part of the development team for Apple's iWatch and their future devices (iii) Graduate study at MIT Media Lab, CornellTech or similar inter-disciplinary programs.
Interactive Technologies Courses
Please reference the Cornell Class Roster for details on the courses below.
Required Course
- CS 2110: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
A. Building with Hardware (choose one)
- INFO 4120: Ubiquitous Computing
- INFO 4320: Introduction to Rapid Prototyping and Physical Computing
- CS 3758: Autonomous Mobile Robots
B. Working with Data/Software (choose one)
- INFO 3300: Data-Driven Web Applications
- INFO 4340 App Design and Prototyping
- INFO 4555: Business Intelligence Systems
- CS 4620: Introduction to Computer Graphics
- CS 4780: Machine Learning for Intelligent Systems
- CS 4786: Machine Learning for Data Science
- CS 5150: Software Engineering
- ORIE 3120: Practical Tools for Operations Research, Machine Learning and Data Science
- ORIE 4740: Statistical Data Mining I
- ORIE 4741: Learning with Big Messy Data
- STSCI 4740: Data Mining and Machine Learning
C. Context/Application Domains (choose one)
- INFO 4152: Advanced Topics in Computer Game Design
- INFO 4154: Analytics-driven Game Design
- INFO 4275: Novel Interaction Techniques
- INFO 4310: Interactive Information Visualization
- INFO 4410: Re-Designing Robots
- INFO 4430: Teams and Technology
- INFO 4505 (Previously offered as INFO 4940): Computing and Global Development
- INFO 4940: Special Topics - Human-AI Interaction Design Research
- CS 4752: Robotic Manipulation