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Informatics joins information technology with the humanities, arts, and the social, natural and applied biomedical sciences creating the power to effect changes that are both permanent and profound as problems in our everyday world are identified and solved.

With over 100 faculty from more than 40 collegiate programs and departments, our students create a flexible curriculum based on individual interests & goals, while learning alongside nationally-recognized faculty in our world-renowned research programs.

Discover what an Informatics degree at the University of Iowa can mean for you!

HI Certificate Application Open to Non-degree Graduate Students

Submitted by cives on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 12:22pm

The Interdsciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics (IGPI) is pleased to announce that effective April 2013, applications to the Health Informatics Graduate Certificate program are no longer limited to those students currently enrolled in an existing graduate degree program.

For more details see certificate information on our web page or contact our program office at igpi@uiowa.edu.

Informatics Colloquium Series Continues May 3, 2013

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 1:57pm

Dr. John Hurdle, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Medicine – Biomedical Informatics at University of Utah, will present Nutritional Informatics:  Integrating Real-Time Dietary Patterns into the Electronic Health Record on May 3, 2013.  This event will take place from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in room 337 of the Iowa Memorial Union.  Immediately following the talk students will have a thirty minute discussion time with Dr. Hurdle.  All students are welcome.  For more information click here.

IGPI Represented at WI-IAT '12 in Macau, China by Information Science PhD Candidate

Submitted by cives on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 8:25am

Christopher Harris, Information Science PhD candidate, presented a paper "Developing a Repeated Multi-Agent Constant-Sum Game Algorithm Using Human Computation"at the Web Intelligence/Intelligent Agent Technologies (WI-IAT'12) conference held in Macau, China from December 4th – 7th, 2012. In support of his research on this paper, Mr. Harris developed Android-based mobile game that was used to defeat some of the leading intelligent agent algorithms at the conference. He also served as a chair at one of the conference sessions. To learn more click here.

Information Science PhD Candidate to Present at ECIR '13 in Moscow, Russia

Submitted by cives on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 12:04pm

Christopher Harris, Information Science PhD candidate, will be presenting his full research paper "Comparing Crowd-based, Game-based, and Machine-based Approaches in Initial Query and Query Refinement Tasks" at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '13), based on research performed with Dr. Padmini Srinivasan. This year's ECIR event will be held March 24th through 27th, 2013 and is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. To learn more click here.