Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Launches Nation’s First Undergraduate Web Science Degree

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Title Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Launches Nation’s First Undergraduate Web Science Degree
Date 2010/04/01
Source RPI News
Link http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2702
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Author Mark Marchand
Location Troy, NY
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched the nation’s first undergraduate degree program devoted to the emerging interdisciplinary field of Web Science. The new academic major expands the current Information Technology degree program to create both a bachelor’s degree, and a master’s concentration, in “Information Technology and Web Science.” The 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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