International School of Information Management
The International School of Information Management is the first Indian i-School and is an autonomous constituent institute of the University of Mysore, located in Mysore in Karnataka, Southern India. ISiM was conceptualised and established in 2005, in collaboration with the leading information schools in the U.S. – namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore, and Dalhousie University of Canada. ISiM was established with grants from the Ford Foundation and Bangalore based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd.
Introduction
ISiM was conceptualized and established in 2005, by the University of Mysore, with seed grants from the Ford Foundation and Bangalore-based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd., and in partnership with some of the leading information schools in the U.S., namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. ISiM was sown during a discussion in academia; dozens of sessions later, during the annual Knowledge Summit in September 2005, Dr. Som Mittal, the then director of HP and the current president of NASSCOM, officially launched ISiM. ISiM signed a memorandum of understanding with the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, the University of Michigan and Dalhousie University of Canada in 2006.ISiM defines a new educational model – the inverse of distance learning – in which the students and the school are in Mysore, but the faculty and mentors are drawn from ISiM's partners and other institutions.
ISiM is directed by an independent governing board, chaired by the vice-chancellor of the University of Mysore, with eminent academics and industry stalwarts as members. ISiM has people like N. R. Narayana Murthy, Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Dr.N. Seshagiri, among others, on its governing board.
Academics
The first batch of M.Tech. students began in August 2007. Currently, three batches of M.Tech. students have graduated from ISiM. The second year of the fourth batch will commence in September 2011. Being a multidisciplinary course. Foreign students have grown from 0% in the first batch of M.Tech. to 23% in the third batch. In its fourth batch, 27% of the total students are foreign students. ISiM offers the following programmes:- M.Tech. in information systems & management
- Post-graduate diploma in information management
- Doctoral degree programme in information systems & management
- Executive education programmes
- Corporate training programmes
Faculty
ISiM has 37 adjunct faculty.Research
Research areas of ISiM include:- Content Development & Management-Tools and Technologies
- Business Intelligence & Information
- Data Mining and Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing and Indian Languages
- Human Information Interactions and Usability
- Knowledge Management, Information Use and Reuse
- Cultural Informatics
Projects
ISiM has been involved in various community projects, which include:- In March 2007, ISiM received ₹1 crore funding and collaboration from Rediff to research Indian language content management and optical character recognition.
- Education Development Center India Digital Library of Audio Visual Educational Materials
- Sasyasiri: Web enabled multimedia database of plants of Karnataka, Government of Karnataka
Governing board
| Member | Affiliation |
| Dr. V. G. Talawar | Vice-chancellor, University of Mysore |
| Prof. M. Anandakrishnan | Chairman IIT Kanpur |
| Dr. N. Seshagiri | Former director General, National Informatics Centre |
| Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy | Chairman & chief mentor, Infosys Technologies |
| Dr. Prakash G. Apte | Former director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
| Dr. S. Sadagopan | Founder Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore |
| Dr. P. Anandan | Managing director, Microsoft Research Labs India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore |
| Mr. N. V. Sathyanarayana | Chairman & managing director, |
| Prof. P. S. Naik | Registrar, University of Mysore, Mysore |
| Mr. M. N VidyaShankar | Principal Secretary, Department of e-Governance, Government of Karnataka |
| Dr. Prasad Ram | Director & centre head, Google India |
| Dr. Shalini R. Urs | Executive director, ISiM, University of Mysore |
Board of studies
| Member | Affiliation |
| Dr. Shalini R. Urs | Executive director, ISiM, University of Mysore |
| Dr. Chidananda Gowda | Former Vice Chancellor and Visiting Professor, ISiM, University of Mysore |
| Dr. D. S. Guru | Reader, Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore |
| Prof. T. N. Nagabhushan | Special Officer, E-Learning Centre, Visvesvaraya Technological University, SJCE Campus, Mysore |
| Dr. J. K. Suresh | Assistant Vice President, Infosys Technologies Ltd. Education and Research, Bangalore |
| Dr. N. Yathindra | Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore |
| Prof. Krithi Ramathirtham | Dean, Department of Computer Studies and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Prof. Chandrashekar Ramanathan | International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore |
| Dr. A. G. Ramakrishnan | Professor and chairman, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Medical intelligence and language engineering lab, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
Campus
ISiM's campus is located on the Manasagangothri campus of the University of Mysore at Mysore, India. ISiM started by using the classrooms of the Department of Library and Information Science in the University of Mysore. Its new campus was inaugurated on 20 August 2008 by Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, chairman and chief mentor of Infosys, who is also a member of ISiM's governing body.ISiM activities
InfoVision summit series
In an attempt to promote Academia – industry interaction for improvisation, ISiM organizes InfoVision, an annual conference series organized with this theme. InfoVision 2006 was organized with Confederation of Indian Industry, Bangalore as joint organizers, InfoVision 2007 with Rediff and Internet And Mobile Association of India, InfoVision 2009 with Microsoft Research and Bangalore Chamber of Industries and Commerce and 2011 with TDWI Chapter India, CSI, DAMA International, IEEE Computer society, ACM and Compegence.ISiM also organized InfoQuiz 2007, prior to the commencement of its M.Tech. programme.
Special lecture series
ISiM collaborates with other universities and organizations to organize special events, and one such venture is lecture series called "Special Lecture Series", with speakers from both the academia and the industry. Listed below are such lectures, their themes/topics and speakers:- Special Lecture : "Wireless Security: Threats and Solutions", by Dr. Srinivas Sampalli, professor and 3M Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, former vice chancellor, Kuvempu University.
- Special Lecture : "Web Content Mining for Automatic Integration of Web Search Source", by Dr. Vijay V. Raghavan Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA.
- Special Lecture : "More Search Vs. Search More – a computing perspective", by Prof. S. Sadagopan, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.
- Special Lecture : "Decision Making and Information Systems" by Prof. H. Raghav Rao, Professor, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
- Special Lecture : "Next Generation Information Access", by Dr. Mark T. Maybury, executive director, Mitre Corporation, USA.
- Special Lecture : “Making a better Web snippet”, by Dr. Ed Cutrell, researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.
- Special Lecture : “Strategy and Innovation Management”, by Mr. Jatin H. Desai, CEO The DeSai Group, USA
- Special Lecture : “Data Mining and Risk Management”, by Dr. S. Chandrasekhar Officiating Director & Chair Professor, IT FORE School of Management, New Delhi.
- Special Lecture : “Changing Paradigms of Digital Marketing & Multichannel Commerce” by Mr. Ajay Malgoankar, group project manager, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Special Lecture : “Information Control and Terrorism: Tracking the Mumbai Terrorist Attack through Twitter”, by Prof. H. Raghav Rao, professor, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
- Special Lecture : "Computing for Socio-Economic Development at Microsoft Research India" by Dr.Edward Cutrell, researcher – manager, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore
- Special lecture : "Leadership,Ethics & Persuasive Communication" by Dr. Matthew Frank Barney, Infosys Mysore
- Special lecture : "Talk on Copyrights", by Jared Margolis, solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
- Special Lecture : "The Open Video Project: Research and Practice", by Prof. Gary Marchionini, dean and Cary C. Boshamer, distinguished professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Special Lecture : Relevance of Information Management in Industry by Ms.Jagadamba Krovvidi, principal technology architect, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Special Lecture : User Experience Design for Enterprise Software by Dr.Todd Barlow, director of Usability and User Interface Design, USA
- Special Lecture : Individual Differences in Phishing Susceptibility: An Integrated Information Processing Model by Dr.Arun Vishwanath, director of Graduate Studies, associate professor, Department of Communication, Adjunct Associate Professor, Management Science & Systems, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
- Special Lecture : Industrial Internet by Dr.Abhinanda Sarkar, principal scientist, Software & Analytics, GE John F Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore.
- Special Lecture : Second level gatekeeping and Content Concentration in Twitter: An Analysis of the 2009 Gaza Conflict by Prof. H. Raghav Rao, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Management Science and Systems Department, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA.
- Special Lecture : From Print to AR – Smart Media of the Future by Dr. Arved Carl Hübler, chair of the professorship, Institute for Print and Media Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology for German Government agency DFG.
CXO lecture series
ISiM also launched a CXO lecture series in October 2009, and the inaugural lecture was delivered by Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, principal secretary, Department of E-Governance, Government of Karnataka. He delivered a talk on e-Governance in India: Challenges and Opportunities.Workshops
ISiM organizes workshops and seminars on a regular basis to address various issues pertaining to the information age, which are open for students of the institute, as well as the general public. Details of such events organized in the past are provided below.ISiM Executive Training Programme : Training workshop on Digital Libraries for NIFT Library Information Science Professionals.Information and Knowledge Audit – A Practical Introduction : One day management workshop. Faculty: Ms. Waltraut Ritter, Mr. Ritendra Banerjee, Dr. Shalini R. Urs.Brainstorming workshop on OCR for Indian languages : Also featured the setting up of Rediff Center for Indian Language Content Management.Workshop on "Text Mining and Business Intelligence" Cyber Security Workshop : Focusing on teaching the basic principles of cyber security from the perspective of providing security awareness and its best practices for the real world. Faculty: Dr. Srinivas Sampalli.Workshop on Machine Learning : Focusing on introducing the basic techniques of Machine Learning, its major areas of application and providing hands on experience to the participants. Faculty: Prof. Sargur N Srihari.Workshop on Data Warehousing and Data Mining : Faculty: Mr. Surya Patchala, Dr. P. Radha Krishna, Mr. Anoop Nambiar.Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Management : Focusing on answering queries on entrepreneurship and management. Faculty: Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan.Workshop on Capability and Maturity Model : Focusing on introducing the CMM standard and its assessment. Faculty: Mr. Srinivas Thummalapalli.Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructure for Urban Governance Decision Making : Organized by University of Amsterdam, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Decision Making, The Netherlands, and School of Planning and Architecture, and hosted by ISiM.Workshop on IPR and Cyber Laws : Focusing on providing students and professionals an understanding of Intellectual Property Rights and Cyber Laws. Faculty: Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli.Workshop on Business Process Management : Organized by ISiM in association with UDream, Bangalore. Faculty: Mr. Raghu Santanam.Workshop on Social Network Analysis : Focusing on introducing the concept of Social Network Analysis and to provide hands on expertise on an open source tool for SNA. Faculty: Prof. Kevin Crowston.Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics : Organized by ISiM as a part of Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, in association with International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India.Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics : Focusing on introducing the domain of Intelligence and Security Informatics. Faculty: Dr. R. N. Prasad, Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Dr. Michael Chau.Workshop on Cloud Computing : Focusing on virtualization. A team from VMware conducted a one-day workshop in which students of ISiM got hands on experience with VMware's product called vSphere.The Challenge – Think, Explore and Evolve : One day workshop organized in association with IBM and CSI. An overview about cutting-edge technologies such as plug-in development, WEB 2.0, And DB Management was presented to the participants.Java Workshop :Infosys – Education and Research Division, Mysore organized four days hands on workshop covering fundamentals of Java programming.Interactive Session on Information Excellence by Mr.Nagaraj Kulkarni, Founder, COMPEGENCE.The session introduced the "Process + Data + Domain approach" that is essential to achieve successful business outcome.Information Economics Workshop : by Dr.Abhinanda Sarkar, principal scientist, software & analytics, GE John F Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore. Information Economics, the study of situations in which different economic agents have access to different information. Topics discussed: Asymmetric Information; Game theoretic Approaches; and Auctions.Conferences
ISiM collaborates with universities to organize conferences. Such conferences organized in the past include:15th International Conference on Management of Data , organized with Computer Society of India as the organizing partner and Infosys as the facilities partner. The event was sponsored by Google and Wipro as platinum sponsors and SAP as the bronze sponsor.International Conference on Digital Libraries 2010, at New Delhi, in collaboration with The Energy and Research Institute.Programmes
ISiM offers the following programmes:- M.Tech. in information systems & management
- Post Graduate Diploma in information management
- Doctoral Degree Programme in information systems & management
- Executive Education Programmes
- Corporate Training