It is a pleasure to introduce this new website of the Master of Science in Information Technology eBusiness Technology program. It was designed and implemented entirely by our degree students and is intended to serve the needs of a diverse community, including current students, prospective applicants, recruiters and alumni. The website is yet another example that what really matters in a technical degree program is not classroom knowledge but acquisition of skills – the ability to select, design, build and repair eBusiness artifacts. While other masters program might emphasize web protocols, HTML writing and database tuning, we find it much more useful to have students make things instead of just learning about them. Hence this website.
I hope that by exploring the site you can become familiar with the diversity of our student body, which has included 100 students from 14 different countries over the past three years. The roots of the program extend back to 1998, when the first masters program in electronic commerce in the United States was offered at Carnegie Mellon. Our alumni now manage important corporate eBusiness units in Europe, North America and Asia. Our faculty, now numbering 13, represents a full spectrum of research and experience in eBusiness fields. The students have access to the resources of the School of Computer Science, the largest academic computer science research establishment n the United States. On our site you will find information about some of our graduates, the corporations that sponsor our work, and current news and data about eBusiness generally. I suggest that you add it to your list of browser “Favorites” so you can keep returning to the rapidly evolving domain of eBusiness Technology.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Ian Shamos, Ph.D., J.D.
Distinguished Career Professor
Institute for Software Research