With the drastic drop in the price of storage and the rise of the internet, many organizations have deployed very large information systems, but they are not equipped to manage them successfully and efficiently. The goal of the Carnegie Mellon University professional degree program Masters of Science in Information Technology, specialization in Very Large Information Systems is to train a new generation of premier technologists who have the skills and knowledge to manage the layers of technology involved in the next generation of massive information system deployments.
Carnegie Mellon University's Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) graduate program is uniquely designed to provide working professionals with this solid foundation. It offers a mix of technology and management courses to provide students with an understanding of information technology from both development and operational perspectives. The MSIT degree is a good investment for both information technologists and business professionals who want to deepen their technical knowledge and develop their management skills.
Very Large Information Systems (VLIS) are large repositories of data that can be found in industry, government, military, academic, and scientific settings. They take the form of internet content providers, business transactions, text, video, financial transactions, genomic data, health care management, scientific data sets, etc.
Through a comprehensive curriculum, the MSIT-VLIS program trains technologists to coordinate all aspects of VLIS deployments. Graduates will have a unified vision of VLISs after being trained in the areas of Interaction, Analysis, Access, Storage, and Quality.
The MSIT-VLIS curriculum draws from internationally recognized CMU faculty in many departments: Institute for Software Research, Language Technologies Institute, Machine Learning Department, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Human Computer Interaction Institute, and the Computer Science Department.