Our School nurtures an open, inclusive, supportive environment made stronger through multiple perspectives and diverse expertise. Research takes faculty and students on a path to study and invent computational capabilities that empower people and machines to affect the world. Through innovation in education, we are preparing a new generation of computational scholars. 

Our faculty conceived the discipline of interactive computing to examine the impacts computation and computing-mediated interactions have on life’s “big issues,” such as health care and national security, but also on the everyday activities in which all of us engage, such as children playing video games, adults keeping in touch with elderly parents, and professionals using computers as tools in the workplace. These interactions take place not in laboratories, but in homes, offices, schools, and hospitals — and computation plays a central role