Informatics at UC Irvine

Abstract

Computer Science, as a single discipline, can no longer speak to the broad relevance of digital technologies in society. The Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, serves as the institutional home for research on relationships between technological, organizational, and social aspects of information technology. Here, we describe the research landscape of the Department of Informatics and its relation to the diverse field of Human-Computer Interaction.

Doing Business with Theory: Communities of Practice in Knowledge Management

“…During the course of our fieldwork, however, we were struck by how often KM practitioners frequently and casually discussed communities of practice. Moreover, we noticed that the CoPs discussed at these meetings were significantly different from what we had learned as academics in the informatics field (Dourish et al 2008). This motivated us to investigate the landscape in which CoP was conceived and how CoP was able to successfully enter the business world.…”

Desarrollo del Pensamiento Computacional en la Formación en Matemática Discreta

“…La matemática discreta tiene aplicaciones en todos los campos de las ciencias computacionales, se utiliza ampliamente en las telecomunicaciones y el procesamiento de la información. En matemática discreta se trabaja con objetos discretos, tales como números enteros, proposiciones, conjuntos, relaciones y funciones, y se aplican conceptos asociados con ellos, y propiedades y relaciones entre ellos [7]. Además, incluye conjuntos, funciones y relaciones, álgebra matricial, probabilidad finita y combinatoria, teoría de grafos, diferencias finitas y las relaciones de recurrencia, lógica, inducción matemática, y pensamiento algorítmico [8,9].…”