RIT 2012 - 1st Annual Conference on Research in Information Technology

This year features the inauguration of a new conference, emphasizing research in information technology. As a new computing discipline, IT found its initial focus in the training of future IT professionals, and “teaching IT” received strong emphasis. IT faculty, however, frequently had strong research programs that fell across a wide range of specialties within computer science, Information systems, computer engineering, and others. As time has gone on, there has been an increasing need to recognize “research in IT” as more than a fragmented collection of pursuits in other computing disciplines. We are seeing a body of research developing that is uniquely characteristic of information technology. We anticipate that this dual conference will reveal a deeper synergy between teaching and research in IT, and will further encourage the recognition of this new body of research that is taking place around the world.
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