Computer and Information Science

Was sind "Computer and Information Science"?

One of the big challenges in computer and information science is dealing with data in large information spaces. The problem is to find, analyse, explore and visualise the data, which is needed in numerous application areas such as economics, geography, medicine, molecular biology, multimedia, quality assurance, the automotive industry and personal information management. The Master’s programme in Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz is geared towards the computer-assisted processing of large volumes of data and is designed to provide students interested in the development of complex information and analysis systems with the requisite knowledge. These systems feature a combination of automatic data analysis procedures and interactive visualization. Ensuring that this type of system is both technically feasible and user-friendly requires a thorough grasp of a variety of methods and technologies from different branches of computer science:

- information system development (e.g. databases, software engineering, and networks),
- visualization (e.g. computer graphics and computer vision),
- data analysis (e.g. data mining and visual analytics),
- algorithms (e.g. network science and signal processing) and information science (e.g. interaction design and information retrieval).