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Information Institute of Syracuse

Director – R. David Lankes
Location – 205 Hinds Hall
Phone number – 315-443-3640
Email – iis@iis.syr.edu
 
Mission:
The Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) is a long standing research center in the areas of education, technology and librarianship. It has been the source and host for a number of highly visible and widely successful digital education information services. The IIS created The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education), The Virtual Reference Desk (VRD), AskERIC and the Educator's Reference Desk. All projects share the same goal: to improve student learning by providing educators, policy makers and parents with quality information to improve teaching and the educational environment. IIS projects bring together universities, government agencies and private enterprises to promote easy access to high quality educational information to a diverse user population. The Information Institute of Syracuse fulfills an ambitious agenda of projects-funded by a range of public and private organizations-to improve librarianship, learning, and teaching in the U.S. and throughout the world.

 

The Information Institute of Syracuse participates in, and leads innovative research and development projects and consortia with many partners. Current and past partners include:
  • National Science Foundation
  • Institute for Library and Museum Services
  • Association for Science Education
  • Australian Education Office
  • Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
  • Syracuse University’s Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP)
  • Colorado Department of Education
  • Education Network Australia (EdNA)
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Federal Aviation Administration
  • Florida State University
  • George Lucas Education al Foundation
  • Internet Public Library
  • Library of Congress
  • LSSI
  • McREL
  • NASA
  • National Library of Canada
  • National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian)
  • OCLC
  • School of Education, Syracuse University
  • School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Washington
  • U.S. Department of Education
  • The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • The Free Library of Philadelphia
  • The U.S. Department of Justice
  • The American Library Association
 

 
Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities

Cotelco is a social science research center organized to explore the socio-technical infrastructure required to support geographically distributed collaboration and knowledge work, particularly between developed and developing countries.
Center for Natural Language Processing

CNLP’s mission is to advance the development of human-like language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications. Current projects are exploring the connotative meaning of text, and investigating the dynamics of free/libre open source software development teams.