The School proposes using the Intel computers for instruction and computationally demanding research. The School is also engaged in development of cross-vocabulary mapping for dynamic generation of controlled vocabulary queries from natural language. This involves computationally intensive generation of probabilistic data on term usage in large databases to develop mapping models from natural language terms to controlled vocabulary entries. Other projects include analyses of the intellectual structure of the Internet using bibliometric co-citation analysis.
Information management is now a key issue in all business, academic, and government organizations.
Clearly, making our students familiar and experienced with this equipment will be of considerable value to Intel in the future when they are employed as information managers in large organizations. The research mission of SIMS is to develop new techniques that will facilitate accomplishment of information management tasks, such as improved methods of information retrieval, automatic categorization, relevance measurement, and computer-human interface. The power and scalability of this technology may well become the preferred environment for information management.