Goals
The Ph.D. Program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS) is
the newest Ph.D. Program in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University. The Ph.D. program in COS trains computer scientists
to develop emerging technology with provable guarantees of the technology's
appropriateness for specific social, organizational, and/or legal settings.
These additional constraints are identified and incorporated within
the original problem definitions of the emerging technologies, and remain
in consideration during development. The results are developed technologies
that are easier to adopt and are more responsible to the environments
in which they operate.
The Ph.D. program in COS prepares students to be leading researchers
in this heavily sought area by providing students with in-depth training
not just in computation but also in fundamentals of relevant ways of
looking at networks of people and organizations, and at their integration
into management, law, and policy. The Ph.D. program in COS builds on
a multi-discplinary team of world-class faculty. It exposes students
to traditional tenets of computer science weaved with interdisciplinary
coursework, hands-on applications and cutting-edge research. Recent
examples include privacy technology, social networks and e-business.
