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From the outset, CITRIS involvement has been instrumental in helping to shape academic excellence at UC Merced. This influence is the innovative open source teaching and learning system developed by the School of Engineering at UC Merced, known as the Open Source Collaboratory. The Collaboratory represents an effort to provide an effective, relevant, and flexible environment for educating the next generation of computer literate and technologically confident college graduates.

The Collaboratory is a model for educational computing environments of the future:

Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that encompasses applications (science/engineering), applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and computer science and engineering in which high performance computing, large-scale simulation, and scientific applications play a central role.

Transforming an information surplus into an information success is the aim of knowledge science, and doing so in the burgeoning area of knowledge services is the focus of UC Santa Cruz: Knowledge Services and Enterprise Management (KSEM). This CITRIS-supported program is offered by UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering at its Silicon Valley Center through the UC Santa Cruz Extension.

At the UC Berkeley campus, CITRIS, in conjunction with  the Haas School of Business, the School of Information, and the College of Engineering, helped to launch a joint program in  Services: Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME).  The SSME program aims to give business, engineering and information

The Information and Service Design (ISD) Program at the UC Berkeley School of Information works to develop a coherent framework for the study of service. Information exchange and collaboration are at the heart of service, whether they are taking place through person-to-person, person-to-machine, or machine-to-machine interactions. The ISD Program explores increasingly global and interconnected developments in business, law, computing, communications, research, and education. It advances the study of service by leveraging School of Information’s distinctive competencies in:

Game-based learning is a promising new approach to education that combines information technology with advances in new media.  Researchers at Berkeley’s Center for New Media, led by Professor Ken Goldberg,  are uniquely positioned to investigate the ways that electronic games will change social and individual learning experiences. Electronic games engage players in fictitious scenarios where they learn to respond to complex stimuli with sophisticated behaviors and strategies.

Wikipedia has become an invaluable source of information to millions of households and to schools and workplaces nationwide—indeed, worldwide. In many ways, a “Wikipedia search” is becoming synonymous with information search, in the same way in which a “Google search” is for the Web.