Through its Affiliates Program, SIMS seeks to establish partnerships with leading institutions in the information industry. The goal of the program is to offer these institutions access to current research carried out at the school and to expose SIMS students to information management problems faced by industry through a summer internship program. SIMS also offers affiliates the opportunity to recruit students into career positions after graduation. Faculty and Students SIMS faculty represent a variety of disciplines. They pursue research in information organization and retrieval, database management, human-computer interaction, economics of information, intellectual property law, and a variety of other fields.
Several faculty hold joint appointments in computer science, economics, business, and law.
See our Potential Employers page for more information. Affiliates receive faculty publications, research announcements, and other relevant materials. Affiliates will be invited to at least two affiliates conferences per year on current topics in information management. Invitations to other related conferences and campus events will also be issued. See the Affiliates Workshop Archive for examples of conferences, workshops, and other events for SIMS Affiliates.