Country's First 'Web Science' Degree Program Comes to RPI

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Title Country's First 'Web Science' Degree Program Comes to RPI
Date 2010/04/02
Source IT Management
Link http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3874446/Countrys-First-Web-Science-Degree-Program-Comes-to-RPI.htm
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Add the "Web" as an official, university-sanctioned science and field of study. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N.Y., has announced it now offers the first undergraduate degree program in the U.S. devoted to the interdisciplinary field of Web Science. In addition, RPI will offer a master's concentration, in "Information Technology and Web Science."

RPI said students in the interdisciplinary degree program will investigate issues on the Web related to security, trust, privacy, content value, and the development of the Web of the future.

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