The Institute for CyberInformation is committed to basic and applied research related to electronic publishing and knowledge management. The Institute works closely with organizations to prototype and evaluate concepts, formats, tools and devices. The Institute is building upon research originally conducted in the Kent State School of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the Knight-Ridder Information Design Laboratory. The Institute for CyberInformation draws upon the expertise of faculty from the following Kent State institutes and centers. In 1990, the National Science Foundation selected a consortium of Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Akron to serve as Ohio's only Science and Technology Center.
Scientists direct basic research on liquid crystals and develop flat-panel display technologies.
It serves as an essential link between the academic and business worlds through workshops where industrial and government researchers can obtain meaningful training. Here, too, participating industry can acquire prototypes needed for funding or market study and advanced materials for the development of new or improved projects. The center's Business Roundtable members cooperate in curriculum research sites, internships and other mutually beneficial information systems projects. CIS is administered through the joint efforts of the department of Management and Information Systems in the College of Business Administration and the College of Continuing Studies. The mission of CRWL is to conduct basic research into the nature and function of literacy in actual workplace contexts and to develop theoretical and applied models of workplace literate practices that can inform business, industry, and community practices and improve undergraduate and graduate education in literacy.